netdev - Re: [PATCH] brcmfmac: replace WARNING on timeout with a simple error message

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Date:   Tue, 27 Sep 2016 13:25:33 +0200
From:   Arend Van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@...adcom.com>
To:     Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@...il.com>,
        Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>
Cc:     Franky Lin <franky.lin@...adcom.com>,
        Hante Meuleman <hante.meuleman@...adcom.com>,
        Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieter-paul.giesberts@...adcom.com>,
        Franky Lin <frankyl@...adcom.com>,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
        brcm80211-dev-list.pdl@...adcom.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Rafał Miłecki <rafal@...ecki.pl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] brcmfmac: replace WARNING on timeout with a simple error
 message

On 27-9-2016 12:12, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@...ecki.pl>
> 
> Even with timeout increased to 950 ms we get WARNINGs from time to time.
> It mostly happens on A-MPDU stalls (e.g. when station goes out of
> range). It may take up to 5-10 secods for the firmware to recover and
> for that time it doesn't process packets.
> 
> It's still useful to have a message on time out as it may indicate some
> firmware problem and incorrect key update. Raising a WARNING however
> wasn't really that necessary, it doesn't point to any driver bug anymore
> and backtrace wasn't much useful.

Indeed the interesting part would be in another context. So:

Acked-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@...adcom.com>
> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@...ecki.pl>
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/core.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/core.c b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/core.c
> index 6d046ba..9e6f60a 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/core.c
> @@ -1161,7 +1161,8 @@ int brcmf_netdev_wait_pend8021x(struct brcmf_if *ifp)
>  				 !brcmf_get_pend_8021x_cnt(ifp),
>  				 MAX_WAIT_FOR_8021X_TX);
>  
> -	WARN_ON(!err);
> +	if (!err)
> +		brcmf_err("Timed out waiting for no pending 802.1x packets\n");
>  
>  	return !err;
>  }
>