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Diffstat (limited to 'include/net/mac80211.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/net/mac80211.h | 14 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h index 2c6f976831b5..a593bedcfeda 100644 --- a/include/net/mac80211.h +++ b/include/net/mac80211.h @@ -1575,6 +1575,20 @@ void ieee80211_unregister_hw(struct ieee80211_hw *hw); */ void ieee80211_free_hw(struct ieee80211_hw *hw); +/** + * ieee80211_restart_hw - restart hardware completely + * + * Call this function when the hardware was restarted for some reason + * (hardware error, ...) and the driver is unable to restore its state + * by itself. mac80211 assumes that at this point the driver/hardware + * is completely uninitialised and stopped, it starts the process by + * calling the ->start() operation. The driver will need to reset all + * internal state that it has prior to calling this function. + * + * @hw: the hardware to restart + */ +void ieee80211_restart_hw(struct ieee80211_hw *hw); + /* trick to avoid symbol clashes with the ieee80211 subsystem */ void __ieee80211_rx(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb, struct ieee80211_rx_status *status); |