Re: [BUG] iwlwifi: card unusable after firmware crash

[Jakub Kicinski]

On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 23:17:48 +0000 Rui Salvaterra wrote:
> Hi, Luca,
> 
> On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 at 16:27, Coelho, Luciano <luciano.coelho@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2020-12-08 at 11:27 +0000, Rui Salvaterra wrote:  
> > >
> > > [ 3174.003910] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: RF_KILL bit toggled to disable radio.
> > > [ 3174.003913] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: reporting RF_KILL (radio disabled)  
> >
> > It looks like your machine is reporting RF-Kill to the WiFi device.  
> 
> Yes, that's an artifact of how I tested: I rebooted the router, the
> Wi-Fi interface disassociated and the dmesg was clean. However, after
> the router came up, the laptop didn't reconnect (and the connection
> had completely disappeared from nmtui). Afterwards, I did the rfkill
> cycle you see, and only then I got the register dump.
> 
> > There seems to be some sort of race there that is causing us to still
> > try to communicate with the device (and thus you see the transaction
> > failed dump), but that will obviously fail when RF-Kill is enabled.  
> 
> I'm not sure about that, the card was already dead before the rfkill cycle.

Any luck figuring this out, Luca? If this is a 5.10 regression we need
to let Linus know tomorrow, so the time is ticking :(