Subject: RE: [PATCH 0/3] mac80211: Trigger disconnect for STA during recovery

From: "Rakesh Pillai" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2020 17:05:22 +0530

> From: Ben Greear <[email-masked]>
> 
> On 12/15/20 9:21 AM, Youghandhar Chintala wrote:
> > From: Rakesh Pillai <[email-masked]>
> >
> > Currently in case of target hardware restart ,we just reconfig and
> > re-enable the security keys and enable the network queues to start
> > data traffic back from where it was interrupted.
> 
> Are there any known mac80211 radios/drivers that *can* support seamless
> restarts?
> 
> If not, then just could always enable this feature in mac80211?

I am not aware of any mac80211 target which can restart in a seamless manner.
Hence I chose to keep this optional and driver can expose this flag (if needed) based on the hardware capability.

Thanks,
Rakesh Pillai.