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authorLuis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>2009-12-24 15:38:22 -0500
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2009-12-28 16:20:05 -0500
commit24feda0084722189468a65e20019cdd8ef99702b (patch)
tree815fdd018e7b1146546dc520208567cae75dd398 /net/9p/trans_fd.c
parentb98c06b6debfe84c90200143bb1102f312f50a33 (diff)
mac80211: fix propagation of failed hardware reconfigurations
mac80211 does not propagate failed hardware reconfiguration requests. For suspend and resume this is important due to all the possible issues that can come out of the suspend <-> resume cycle. Not propagating the error means cfg80211 will assume the resume for the device went through fine and mac80211 will continue on trying to poke at the hardware, enable timers, queue work, and so on for a device which is completley unfunctional. The least we can do is to propagate device start issues and warn when this occurs upon resume. A side effect of this patch is we also now propagate the start errors upon harware reconfigurations (non-suspend), but this should also be desirable anyway, there is not point in continuing to reconfigure a device if mac80211 was unable to start the device. For further details refer to the thread: http://marc.info/?t=126151038700001&r=1&w=2 Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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