[PATCH] ath10k: make monitor vdev down before stoping it

Marek Puzyniak marek.puzyniak at tieto.com
Tue Sep 24 08:06:24 EDT 2013


Following sequence causes FW crash:
-monitor vdev up,
-monitor vdev stop,
-monitor vdev delete.
Making monitor vdev down before stoping it works ok:
-monitor vdev up,
-monitor vdev down,
-monitor vdev stop,
-monitor vdev delete.

Signed-off-by: Marek Puzyniak <marek.puzyniak at tieto.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c | 9 +++------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c
index 51988d9..24b94c8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c
@@ -567,12 +567,9 @@ static int ath10k_monitor_stop(struct ath10k *ar)
 
 	lockdep_assert_held(&ar->conf_mutex);
 
-	/* For some reasons, ath10k_wmi_vdev_down() here couse
-	 * often ath10k_wmi_vdev_stop() to fail. Next we could
-	 * not run monitor vdev and driver reload
-	 * required. Don't see such problems we skip
-	 * ath10k_wmi_vdev_down() here.
-	 */
+	ret = ath10k_wmi_vdev_down(ar, ar->monitor_vdev_id);
+	if (ret)
+		ath10k_warn("Monitor vdev down failed: %d\n", ret);
 
 	ret = ath10k_wmi_vdev_stop(ar, ar->monitor_vdev_id);
 	if (ret)
-- 
1.8.1.2




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