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authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2014-04-30 14:19:04 +0200
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2014-05-09 12:21:34 +0200
commitf6837ba8c98afcf28ec25f6863a8597274aeefd6 (patch)
tree25e045970c4161b73457e42ded044dd908e81c6c /include/net/cfg80211.h
parentf29f58a9e53252a50eaea0ece59f1af5fad56b5f (diff)
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mac80211: handle failed restart/resume better
When the driver fails during HW restart or resume, the whole stack goes into a very confused state with interfaces being up while the hardware is down etc. Address this by shutting down everything; we'll run into a lot of warnings in the process but that's better than having the whole stack get messed up. Reviewed-by: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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diff --git a/include/net/cfg80211.h b/include/net/cfg80211.h
index 28f6f1a..5c7169b 100644
--- a/include/net/cfg80211.h
+++ b/include/net/cfg80211.h
@@ -4771,6 +4771,20 @@ int cfg80211_iter_combinations(struct wiphy *wiphy,
void cfg80211_stop_iface(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct wireless_dev *wdev,
gfp_t gfp);
+/**
+ * cfg80211_shutdown_all_interfaces - shut down all interfaces for a wiphy
+ * @wiphy: the wiphy to shut down
+ *
+ * This function shuts down all interfaces belonging to this wiphy by
+ * calling dev_close() (and treating non-netdev interfaces as needed).
+ * It shouldn't really be used unless there are some fatal device errors
+ * that really can't be recovered in any other way.
+ *
+ * Callers must hold the RTNL and be able to deal with callbacks into
+ * the driver while the function is running.
+ */
+void cfg80211_shutdown_all_interfaces(struct wiphy *wiphy);
+
/* Logging, debugging and troubleshooting/diagnostic helpers. */
/* wiphy_printk helpers, similar to dev_printk */
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