Re: [PATCH] wifi: ath10k: Trigger STA disconnect after reconfig complete on hardware restart

From: Kalle Valo
Date: Thu Jun 01 2023 - 06:32:42 EST


Youghandhar Chintala <quic_youghand@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Currently, on WCN3990, the station disconnect after hardware recovery is
> not working as expected. This is because of setting the
> IEEE80211_SDATA_DISCONNECT_HW_RESTART flag very early in the hardware
> recovery process even before the driver invokes ieee80211_hw_restart().
> On the contrary, mac80211 expects this flag to be set after
> ieee80211_hw_restart() is invoked for it to trigger station disconnect.
>
> Set the IEEE80211_SDATA_DISCONNECT_HW_RESTART flag in
> ath10k_reconfig_complete() instead to fix this.
>
> The other targets are not affected by this change, since the hardware
> params flag is not set.
>
> Tested-on: WCN3990 hw1.0 SNOC WLAN.HL.3.2.2.c10-00754-QCAHLSWMTPL-1
>
> Fixes: 2c3fc50591ff ("ath10k: Trigger sta disconnect on hardware restart")
> Signed-off-by: Youghandhar Chintala <quic_youghand@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <quic_kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Patch applied to ath-next branch of ath.git, thanks.

75bd32f5ce94 wifi: ath10k: Trigger STA disconnect after reconfig complete on hardware restart

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