mac80211: backport brcmfmac changes from 2016-09-27
[openwrt/openwrt.git] / package / kernel / mac80211 / patches / 319-0031-brcmfmac-replace-WARNING-on-timeout-with-a-simple-er.patch
1 From 2f0e56fa37cce60a5ac5d451bcadec51cd711436 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
2 From: =?UTF-8?q?Rafa=C5=82=20Mi=C5=82ecki?= <rafal@milecki.pl>
3 Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 12:12:24 +0200
4 Subject: [PATCH] brcmfmac: replace WARNING on timeout with a simple error
5 message
6 MIME-Version: 1.0
7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
9
10 Even with timeout increased to 950 ms we get WARNINGs from time to time.
11 It mostly happens on A-MPDU stalls (e.g. when station goes out of
12 range). It may take up to 5-10 secods for the firmware to recover and
13 for that time it doesn't process packets.
14
15 It's still useful to have a message on time out as it may indicate some
16 firmware problem and incorrect key update. Raising a WARNING however
17 wasn't really that necessary, it doesn't point to any driver bug anymore
18 and backtrace wasn't much useful.
19
20 Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
21 Acked-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
22 Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
23 ---
24 drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/core.c | 3 ++-
25 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
26
27 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/core.c
28 +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/core.c
29 @@ -1155,7 +1155,8 @@ int brcmf_netdev_wait_pend8021x(struct b
30 !brcmf_get_pend_8021x_cnt(ifp),
31 MAX_WAIT_FOR_8021X_TX);
32
33 - WARN_ON(!err);
34 + if (!err)
35 + brcmf_err("Timed out waiting for no pending 802.1x packets\n");
36
37 return !err;
38 }