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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Cc: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>,
	Intel Linux Wireless <ilw@linux.intel.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iwlwifi: do not nulify ctx->vif on reset
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 07:58:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1331708304.3376.0.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120314062549.GA2788@redhat.com>

On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 07:25 +0100, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:

> > Have you seen crashes due to this? I have seen the warning in the past
> > but in some recent firmware reset testing I never ran into it again...
> 
> I have vif == NULL crashes reports on old RHEL6, that _possibly_ are
> caused by this issue, but I'm not 100% sure, RHEL6 include own vif related
> changes needed by backport.
> 
> I'm not able to reproduce vif crashes on force_reset on current
> wireless-testing, but when I transmit data and trigger a reset,
> device stops working. There are some messages [1] (20:00.0 is 6300
> adapter, but on others I tested 5300 and 100 reset does not work too).
> 
> So hw reset is completely broken at present, perhaps is time to remove
> watchdog and related infrastructure.

I wish :-)
But last I tried (after refactoring queue stop/wake), I could
successfully recover from hw restart in the middle of aggregation
sessions -- which code did you try with?

johannes


  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-14  6:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-13 15:10 [PATCH] iwlwifi: do not nulify ctx->vif on reset Stanislaw Gruszka
2012-03-13 15:15 ` Johannes Berg
2012-03-14  6:25   ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2012-03-14  6:58     ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2012-03-14  7:07       ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2012-03-14  8:14         ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2012-03-16 14:37           ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2012-03-16 15:16             ` Johannes Berg
2012-03-26  9:08           ` Johannes Berg
2012-03-26 14:30             ` Guy, Wey-Yi
2012-03-26 18:42               ` John W. Linville
2012-03-26 18:51                 ` Guy, Wey-Yi

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