• Youghandhar Chintala's avatar
    ath10k: Trigger sta disconnect on hardware restart · 2c3fc505
    Youghandhar Chintala authored
    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.
    
    The other targets are not affected by this change, since the hardware
    params flag is not set.
    
    Tested-on: WCN3990 hw1.0 SNOC WLAN.HL.3.1-01040-QCAHLSWMTPLZ-1
    Tested-on: QCA6174 hw3.2 PCI WLAN.RM.4.4.1-00110-QCARMSWP-1
    Tested-on: QCA6174 hw3.2 SDIO WLAN.RMH.4.4.1-00048
    Signed-off-by: default avatarYoughandhar Chintala <youghand@codeaurora.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarKalle Valo <quic_kvalo@quicinc.com>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220315082944.12406-3-youghand@codeaurora.org
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