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From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
To: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
Cc: "ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org" <ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org>,
	ath10k@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH v2 1/3] ath10k: implement device recovery
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 10:19:16 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r4f0p9xn.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+BoTQkJLTLRrO41bNJ+x1fAKb39AQ2J4QfinFbE4=BqwPu0VQ@mail.gmail.com> (Michal Kazior's message of "Fri, 5 Jul 2013 10:05:36 +0200")

Hi Michal,

sorry, I forgot to answer this one.

Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com> writes:

> On 5 July 2013 09:47, Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com> wrote:
>
>> I feel that RESTARTING_OFF and RESTARTING_ON are a bit confusing names,
>> especially when we have OFF and ON states. Wouldn't RESTARTING and
>> RESTARTED be simpler?
>
> RESTARTING/RESTARTED seems confusing to me too. The whole thing
> shouldn't be considered restarted until mac80211 calls in
> restart_complete() - but then again, at that point we should consider
> the state as STATE_ON (and we do). Having RESTARTING_OFF / _ON gives
> off more info about the state hw is in.
>
> Ideally we should have only one state - RESTARTING and guarantee that
> the hw is in a workable state before we call in for
> ieee80211_restart_hw(). We'd need to skip hw startup in ath10k_start()
> in that case and make some code from ath10k_start() reusable and
> callable from ath10k_core_start().
>
> I can't really remember the reason I went with this particular design
> now. Perhaps this can be addressed in follow up patches later?

I would prefer that you still rename the states to what I suggested.

-- 
Kalle Valo

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From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
To: ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org
Subject: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH v2 1/3] ath10k: implement device recovery
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 10:19:16 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r4f0p9xn.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+BoTQkJLTLRrO41bNJ+x1fAKb39AQ2J4QfinFbE4=BqwPu0VQ@mail.gmail.com> (Michal Kazior's message of "Fri, 5 Jul 2013 10:05:36 +0200")

Hi Michal,

sorry, I forgot to answer this one.

Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com> writes:

> On 5 July 2013 09:47, Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com> wrote:
>
>> I feel that RESTARTING_OFF and RESTARTING_ON are a bit confusing names,
>> especially when we have OFF and ON states. Wouldn't RESTARTING and
>> RESTARTED be simpler?
>
> RESTARTING/RESTARTED seems confusing to me too. The whole thing
> shouldn't be considered restarted until mac80211 calls in
> restart_complete() - but then again, at that point we should consider
> the state as STATE_ON (and we do). Having RESTARTING_OFF / _ON gives
> off more info about the state hw is in.
>
> Ideally we should have only one state - RESTARTING and guarantee that
> the hw is in a workable state before we call in for
> ieee80211_restart_hw(). We'd need to skip hw startup in ath10k_start()
> in that case and make some code from ath10k_start() reusable and
> callable from ath10k_core_start().
>
> I can't really remember the reason I went with this particular design
> now. Perhaps this can be addressed in follow up patches later?

I would prefer that you still rename the states to what I suggested.

-- 
Kalle Valo

  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-15  7:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <8c0a4f68cc3454b77a21ab949075fb0632549bb9>
2013-06-25  8:13 ` [ath9k-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] ath10k: hardware recovery Michal Kazior
2013-06-25  8:13   ` [ath9k-devel] [PATCH v2 1/3] ath10k: implement device recovery Michal Kazior
2013-07-05  7:47     ` Kalle Valo
2013-07-05  8:05       ` Michal Kazior
2013-07-15  7:19         ` Kalle Valo [this message]
2013-07-15  7:19           ` Kalle Valo
2013-06-25  8:13   ` [ath9k-devel] [PATCH v2 2/3] ath10k: implement fw crash simulation command Michal Kazior
2013-06-25  8:13   ` [ath9k-devel] [PATCH v2 3/3] ath10k: create debugfs interface to trigger fw crash Michal Kazior
2013-07-16  7:54   ` [PATCH v3 0/3] ath10k: hardware recovery Michal Kazior
2013-07-16  7:54     ` Michal Kazior
2013-07-16  7:54     ` [PATCH v3 1/3] ath10k: implement device recovery Michal Kazior
2013-07-16  7:54       ` Michal Kazior
2013-07-16  7:54     ` [PATCH v3 2/3] ath10k: implement fw crash simulation command Michal Kazior
2013-07-16  7:54       ` Michal Kazior
2013-07-16  7:54     ` [PATCH v3 3/3] ath10k: create debugfs interface to trigger fw crash Michal Kazior
2013-07-16  7:54       ` Michal Kazior
2013-07-19 10:29       ` Kalle Valo
2013-07-19 10:29         ` Kalle Valo
2013-07-20  6:01         ` Kalle Valo
2013-07-20  6:01           ` Kalle Valo
2013-07-22 12:08           ` [PATCH v4] " Michal Kazior
2013-07-22 12:08             ` Michal Kazior
2013-07-23  8:02             ` Kalle Valo
2013-07-23  8:02               ` Kalle Valo
2013-07-19 10:32     ` [PATCH v3 0/3] ath10k: hardware recovery Kalle Valo
2013-07-19 10:32       ` Kalle Valo

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