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Message-ID: <1498634512.12531.1.camel@sipsolutions.net>
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 09:21:52 +0200
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To: Brian Norris <briannorris@...omium.org>
Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
Ganapathi Bhat <gbhat@...vell.com>,
Nishant Sarmukadam <nishants@...vell.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
Amitkumar Karwar <amitkarwar@...il.com>,
linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/14] mwifiex: re-register wiphy across reset
Hi Brian,
> Wow, that's not exactly simple code; I expect it could be pretty
> difficult to get that right today on mwifiex.
Yeah, I have no doubt. You'd probably have to track a lot of state that
you just pass down to the firmware too, and possibly can't even track
some state that the firmware derives itself (like for example PNs for
keys)
> The current approach
> actually should be *easier* (for the kernel side) to avoid bugs, as
> it should be basically the same thing as 'rmmod'. Nonetheless, there
> are plenty of bugs.
:-)
johannes
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