Re: [PATCH 05/14] mwifiex: re-register wiphy across reset

From	Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH 05/14] mwifiex: re-register wiphy across reset
Date	2017-06-28 09:30 +0200
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Hi Brian,

> Wow, that's not exactly simple code; I expect it could be pretty
> difficult to get that right today on mwifiex. 

Yeah, I have no doubt. You'd probably have to track a lot of state that
you just pass down to the firmware too, and possibly can't even track
some state that the firmware derives itself (like for example PNs for
keys)

> The current approach
> actually should be *easier* (for the kernel side) to avoid bugs, as
> it should be basically the same thing as 'rmmod'. Nonetheless, there
> are plenty of bugs.

:-)

johannes

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Re: [PATCH 05/14] mwifiex: re-register wiphy across reset Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org> - 2017-06-21 19:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 05/14] mwifiex: re-register wiphy across reset Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> - 2017-06-22 15:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 05/14] mwifiex: re-register wiphy across reset Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org> - 2017-06-27 22:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 05/14] mwifiex: re-register wiphy across reset Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> - 2017-06-28 09:30 +0200

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