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From: "Arend van Spriel" <arend@broadcom.com>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, "Arend van Spriel" <arend@broadcom.com>
Subject: [PATCH 06/12] brcmfmac: ignore IF event if firmware indicates it
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 12:27:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1376130450-29746-7-git-send-email-arend@broadcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1376130450-29746-1-git-send-email-arend@broadcom.com>

Not every IF event from the firmware needs to result in a
related interface, netdev or wdev, on the host. This is
indicated in the event message. Handle that flag and effectively
ignore the firmware event.

Reviewed-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dhd.h  | 2 ++
 drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/fweh.c | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dhd.h b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dhd.h
index 1273dfd..2eb9e64 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dhd.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dhd.h
@@ -194,6 +194,8 @@
 #define BRCMF_E_IF_DEL				2
 #define BRCMF_E_IF_CHANGE			3
 
+#define BRCMF_E_IF_FLAG_NOIF			1
+
 #define BRCMF_E_IF_ROLE_STA			0
 #define BRCMF_E_IF_ROLE_AP			1
 #define BRCMF_E_IF_ROLE_WDS			2
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/fweh.c b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/fweh.c
index 83ee53a..fad77dd 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/fweh.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/fweh.c
@@ -185,6 +185,10 @@ static void brcmf_fweh_handle_if_event(struct brcmf_pub *drvr,
 		  ifevent->action, ifevent->ifidx, ifevent->bssidx,
 		  ifevent->flags, ifevent->role);
 
+	if (ifevent->flags & BRCMF_E_IF_FLAG_NOIF) {
+		brcmf_dbg(EVENT, "event can be ignored\n");
+		return;
+	}
 	if (ifevent->ifidx >= BRCMF_MAX_IFS) {
 		brcmf_err("invalid interface index: %u\n",
 			  ifevent->ifidx);
-- 
1.8.1.3



  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-08-10 10:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-10 10:27 [PATCH 00/12] brcm80211: new functionality and some cleanup fixes Arend van Spriel
2013-08-10 10:27 ` [PATCH 01/12] brcmfmac: use irq safe spinlock in brcmf_sdbrcm_txdata() Arend van Spriel
2013-08-10 10:27 ` [PATCH 02/12] brcmfmac: .txdata() bus callback should not call brcmf_txcomplete() Arend van Spriel
2013-08-10 10:27 ` [PATCH 03/12] brcmfmac: add AMPDU reordering functionality Arend van Spriel
2013-08-10 10:27 ` [PATCH 04/12] brcmfmac: always use worker thread for tx data Arend van Spriel
2013-08-10 10:27 ` [PATCH 05/12] brcmfmac: no fws locking outside fws module Arend van Spriel
2013-08-10 10:27 ` Arend van Spriel [this message]
2013-08-10 10:27 ` [PATCH 07/12] brcmfmac: add support for manual TDLS operations Arend van Spriel
2013-08-10 10:27 ` [PATCH 08/12] brcmfmac: abstract tx packet processing functions Arend van Spriel
2013-08-10 10:27 ` [PATCH 09/12] brcmfmac: remove align from brcmf_bus structure Arend van Spriel
2013-08-10 10:27 ` [PATCH 10/12] brcmfmac: streamline sdio bus header code Arend van Spriel
2013-08-10 10:27 ` [PATCH 11/12] brcmfmac: use configurable sdio bus header length for tx packet Arend van Spriel
2013-08-10 10:27 ` [PATCH 12/12] brcmsmac: support 4313iPA Arend van Spriel
2013-08-11 12:48   ` Jonas Gorski
2013-08-12 10:10     ` Arend van Spriel
2013-08-12 10:22       ` David Herrmann

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