Re: [PATCH] brcmfmac: replace WARNING on timeout with a simple error message

From: Arend Van Spriel
Date: Tue Sep 27 2016 - 07:26:07 EST


On 27-9-2016 12:12, RafaÅ MiÅecki wrote:
> From: RafaÅ MiÅecki <rafal@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Even with timeout increased to 950 ms we get WARNINGs from time to time.
> It mostly happens on A-MPDU stalls (e.g. when station goes out of
> range). It may take up to 5-10 secods for the firmware to recover and
> for that time it doesn't process packets.
>
> It's still useful to have a message on time out as it may indicate some
> firmware problem and incorrect key update. Raising a WARNING however
> wasn't really that necessary, it doesn't point to any driver bug anymore
> and backtrace wasn't much useful.

Indeed the interesting part would be in another context. So:

Acked-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: RafaÅ MiÅecki <rafal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/core.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/core.c b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/core.c
> index 6d046ba..9e6f60a 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/core.c
> @@ -1161,7 +1161,8 @@ int brcmf_netdev_wait_pend8021x(struct brcmf_if *ifp)
> !brcmf_get_pend_8021x_cnt(ifp),
> MAX_WAIT_FOR_8021X_TX);
>
> - WARN_ON(!err);
> + if (!err)
> + brcmf_err("Timed out waiting for no pending 802.1x packets\n");
>
> return !err;
> }
>