Subject: Re: wireless-testing commit
	eb9d4e8399181357cb6f6625ba7f849987432c6c causes stalls
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
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On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 23:29 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:

> >> Not sure I agree with the WARN_ON() if the driver's mac80211 config()
> >> callback fails. In our case when we tune to a different channel we
> >> have to clear any DMA operations first and then we reset the chip.
> >> Reseting the chip can fail for whatever strange hw issue cases. The
> >> patch fixes the complaint but is the complaint sane?
> >
> > What's mac80211 to do when it fails?
>=20
> How about a shiny new nl80211 event?

And wtf would userspace do?

johannes

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