[PATCH v2] wifi: ath12k: trigger station disconnect on hardware restart

[Kalle Valo]

Wen Gong <quic_wgong at quicinc.com> wrote:

> Currently after the hardware restart triggered from the driver, the
> station interface connection remains intact, since a disconnect
> trigger is not sent to userspace. This can lead to a problem in
> targets where the wifi mac sequence is added by the firmware.
> 
> After the target restart, its wifi mac sequence number gets reset to
> zero. Hence AP to which our device is connected will receive frames
> with a wifi mac sequence number jump to the past, thereby resulting
> in the AP dropping all these frames, until the frame arrives with a
> wifi mac sequence number which AP was expecting.
> 
> To avoid such frame drops, its better to trigger a station disconnect
> upon target hardware restart which can be done with API
> ieee80211_reconfig_disconnect exposed to mac80211.
> 
> Tested-on: WCN7850 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.HMT.1.0-03427-QCAHMTSWPL_V1.0_V2.0_SILICONZ-1.15378.4
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wen Gong <quic_wgong at quicinc.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <quic_kvalo at quicinc.com>

This added a new warning:

drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/mac.c:6762: networking block comments don't use an empty /* line, use /* Comment...

Please remember to run ath12k-check. I fixed this in the pending branch.

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