[PATCH 2/5] ath10k: dont reset the chip on hif_stop

Michal Kazior michal.kazior at tieto.com
Thu Aug 7 02:05:05 PDT 2014


The copy engine structures are never changed until
driver unregisters the device so it is not
necessary to reset the device chip anymore when
stopping.

This reduces driver register time approx. by 200ms.

Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior at tieto.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/pci.c | 7 -------
 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/pci.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/pci.c
index 7efcf8e..6a5ca9e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/pci.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/pci.c
@@ -1192,13 +1192,6 @@ static void ath10k_pci_hif_stop(struct ath10k *ar)
 
 	ath10k_pci_buffer_cleanup(ar);
 
-	/* Make the sure the device won't access any structures on the host by
-	 * resetting it. The device was fed with PCI CE ringbuffer
-	 * configuration during init. If ringbuffers are freed and the device
-	 * were to access them this could lead to memory corruption on the
-	 * host. */
-	ath10k_pci_warm_reset(ar);
-
 	ar_pci->started = 0;
 }
 
-- 
1.8.5.3




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