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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Revert "mwifiex: fix system hang problem after resume"
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Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org> wrote:

> This reverts commit 437322ea2a36d112e20aa7282c869bf924b3a836.
>
> This above-mentioned "fix" does not actually do anything to prevent a
> race condition. It simply papers over it so that the issue doesn't
> appear.
>
> If this is a real problem, it should be explained better than the above
> commit does, and an alternative, non-racy solution should be found.
>
> For further reason to revert this: there's no reason we can't try
> resetting the card when it's *actually* stuck in host-sleep mode. So
> instead, this is unnecessarily creating scenarios where we can't recover
> Wifi (and in fact, I'm fielding reports of Chromebooks that can't
> recover after the aforementioned commit).
>
> Note that this was proposed in 2017 and Ack'ed then, but due to my
> marking as RFC, it never went anywhere:
>
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9657277/
> [RFC] Revert "mwifiex: fix system hang problem after resume"
>
> Cc: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
> Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
> Reviewed-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
> Acked-by: Amitkumar Karwar <amitkarwar@gmail.com>
> Tested-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org>

Patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks.

654026df2635 Revert "mwifiex: fix system hang problem after resume"

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