netdev - RE: [PATCH 0/3] mac80211: Trigger disconnect for STA during recovery

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Date:   Wed, 16 Dec 2020 17:05:22 +0530
From:   "Rakesh Pillai" <pillair@...eaurora.org>
To:     "'Ben Greear'" <greearb@...delatech.com>,
        "'Youghandhar Chintala'" <youghand@...eaurora.org>,
        <johannes@...solutions.net>, <ath10k@...ts.infradead.org>
Cc:     <kvalo@...eaurora.org>, <davem@...emloft.net>, <kuba@...nel.org>,
        <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <kuabhs@...omium.org>,
        <dianders@...omium.org>, <briannorris@...omium.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 0/3] mac80211: Trigger disconnect for STA during recovery


> From: Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
> 
> On 12/15/20 9:21 AM, Youghandhar Chintala wrote:
> > From: Rakesh Pillai <pillair@...eaurora.org>
> >
> > Currently in case of target hardware restart ,we just reconfig and
> > re-enable the security keys and enable the network queues to start
> > data traffic back from where it was interrupted.
> 
> Are there any known mac80211 radios/drivers that *can* support seamless
> restarts?
> 
> If not, then just could always enable this feature in mac80211?

I am not aware of any mac80211 target which can restart in a seamless manner.
Hence I chose to keep this optional and driver can expose this flag (if needed) based on the hardware capability.

Thanks,
Rakesh Pillai.