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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	ipw3945-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Mohamed Abbas <mabbas@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: notify mac from low level driver (iwlwifi)
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:46:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1207320389.19189.30.camel@johannes.berg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1207264130-25437-2-git-send-email-reinette.chatre@intel.com>

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> + * This function must be called by low level driver to inform mac80211 of
> + * low level driver status change or force mac80211 to re-assoc for low
> + * level driver internal error that require re-assoc. A good example to use
> + * this notification to call mac80211 after suspend/resume, some NIC require
> + * re-assoc.

I think the suspend/resume text should be dropped since IMHO that
requires more work, reprogramming all the hardware crypto keys for
example.

> +			/* No need to wake the master device. */
> +			if (sdata->dev == local->mdev)
> +				continue;

That looks like a copy&paste bug, we're not waking it in any way. Also,
it's of IF_TYPE_AP so it's not necessary to test this at all.

johannes

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-04 14:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-03 23:08 [PATCH] mac80211: notify upper layers after lower Reinette Chatre
2008-04-03 23:08 ` [PATCH] mac80211: notify mac from low level driver (iwlwifi) Reinette Chatre
2008-04-04 14:46   ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2008-04-04 21:35     ` mohamed salim abbas
2008-04-04 21:39       ` Johannes Berg
2008-04-04 23:34         ` mohamed salim abbas
2008-04-04 23:47           ` Johannes Berg
2008-04-04 23:55             ` mohamed salim abbas
2008-04-04 14:44 ` [PATCH] mac80211: notify upper layers after lower Johannes Berg

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