On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 11:16:37AM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 03:46:20PM +0930, Brett Lymn wrote:
> > I turned up a fix I had put into my source tree a while back, I think at
> > the time the wireless driver (urtwn IIRC) did not set an entry for
> > if_stop.
> 
> This is a driver bug, we should not work around it but catch it early
> and fix it.
> 

ok but I believe that it is a common issue with the usb wifi drivers which is a 
bit odd
since they are more likely to be attached to platforms that sleep.

> Side note: the wifi drivers fiddling with struct ifnet will stop
> once the new wifi code gets into the main tree.
> 

Is that going to be soon? I was thinking of doing a sweep of the usb network 
drivers to fix
this.  It is not affecting me at the moment because the driver for wireless I 
am using at
the moment actually defines if_stop.

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