[PATCH v2] ath10k: Retry pci probe on failure.

greearb at candelatech.com greearb at candelatech.com
Tue Oct 3 15:13:46 PDT 2017


From: Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com>

This works around a problem we see when sometimes the wifi NIC does
not respond the first time.  This seems to happen especially often on
some of the 9984 NICs in mid-range platforms.

Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com>
---

v2:  Change to mdelay instead of udelay to fix compile issue on ARM.

 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/pci.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/pci.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/pci.c
index 77beb13..0861f7f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/pci.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/pci.c
@@ -3487,8 +3487,8 @@ static const struct ath10k_bus_ops ath10k_pci_bus_ops = {
 	.get_num_banks	= ath10k_pci_get_num_banks,
 };
 
-static int ath10k_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
-			    const struct pci_device_id *pci_dev)
+static int __ath10k_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
+			      const struct pci_device_id *pci_dev)
 {
 	int ret = 0;
 	struct ath10k *ar;
@@ -3672,6 +3672,22 @@ static int ath10k_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
 	return ret;
 }
 
+static int ath10k_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
+			    const struct pci_device_id *pci_dev)
+{
+	int cnt = 0;
+	int rv;
+	do {
+		rv = __ath10k_pci_probe(pdev, pci_dev);
+		if (rv == 0)
+			return rv;
+		pr_err("ath10k: failed to probe PCI : %d, retry-count: %d\n", rv, cnt);
+		mdelay(10); /* let the ath10k firmware gerbil take a small break */
+	} while (cnt++ < 10);
+	return rv;
+}
+
+
 static void ath10k_pci_remove(struct pci_dev *pdev)
 {
 	struct ath10k *ar = pci_get_drvdata(pdev);
-- 
2.4.11




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