On Thu, 2019-09-26 at 14:00 +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> > You can't seriously be suggesting that the driver doesn't *have* enough
> > information - everything passed through it :)
>
> Precisely: it doesn't store (cache) enough info.
But nothing stops it (the driver) from doing so!
> In brcmfm
On 26.09.2019 13:55, Johannes Berg wrote:
On Thu, 2019-09-26 at 13:52 +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
Indeed my main concert is AP mode. I'm afraid that cfg80211 doesn't
cache all settings, consider e.g. nl80211_start_ap(). It builds
struct cfg80211_ap_settings using info from nl80211 message and
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On 20.09.2019 16:01, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 03:37:08PM +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
>> Hardware or firmware instability may result in unusable wiphy. In such
>> cases usually a hardware reset is needed. To allow a full recovery
>> kernel h
On Thu, 2019-09-26 at 13:52 +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
>
> Indeed my main concert is AP mode. I'm afraid that cfg80211 doesn't
> cache all settings, consider e.g. nl80211_start_ap(). It builds
> struct cfg80211_ap_settings using info from nl80211 message and
> passes it to the driver (rdev_start_
On 20.09.2019 16:01, Jouni Malinen wrote:
On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 03:37:08PM +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
Hardware or firmware instability may result in unusable wiphy. In such
cases usually a hardware reset is needed. To allow a full recovery
kernel has to indicate problem to the user space.
W
On Fri, 20 Sep 2019 15:37:08 +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> From: Rafał Miłecki
>
> Hardware or firmware instability may result in unusable wiphy. In such
> cases usually a hardware reset is needed. To allow a full recovery
> kernel has to indicate problem to the user space.
>
> This new nl80211
On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 03:37:08PM +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> Hardware or firmware instability may result in unusable wiphy. In such
> cases usually a hardware reset is needed. To allow a full recovery
> kernel has to indicate problem to the user space.
Why? Shouldn't the driver be able to hand
From: Rafał Miłecki
Hardware or firmware instability may result in unusable wiphy. In such
cases usually a hardware reset is needed. To allow a full recovery
kernel has to indicate problem to the user space.
This new nl80211 command lets user space known wiphy has crashed and has
been just recov
