linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] wcn36xx: Set SMD timeout to 10 seconds

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Date:	Thu, 21 Apr 2016 14:11:06 -0700
From:	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
To:	Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>
Cc:	Eugene Krasnikov <k.eugene.e@...il.com>,
	Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wcn36xx: Set SMD timeout to 10 seconds

On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 2:09 PM, Bjorn Andersson
<bjorn.andersson@...aro.org> wrote:
> After booting the wireless subsystem and uploading the NV blob to the
> WCNSS_CTRL service the remote continues to do things and will not start
> servicing wlan-requests for another 2-5 seconds (measured).
>
> The downstream code does not have any special handling for this case,
> but has a timeout of 10 seconds for the communication layer. By
> extending the wcn36xx timeout to match this we follows the same flow for
> the boot procedure and can successfully configure WiFi as wlan0 is
> registered.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>

I've been using this with my nexus7 tree, and its avoided issues I was
seeing without it.

Tested-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>

thanks
-john