Re: [ath-next] wifi: ath10k: trigger hardware recovery upon rx failures

On 7/10/2026 2:04 PM, Manikanta Pubbisetty wrote:
> When an error occurs during RX packet processing (e.g., MSDU done
> failure), the driver sets rx_confused and drops all subsequent RX
> packets until a Wi-Fi ON/OFF cycle clears the flag. This can leave
> the device in a bad state where it cannot process RX data traffic.
> 
> Instead of leaving the device in such a state, trigger hardware
> recovery so that such an error state can be reset and the device
> can function again normally.
> 
> Tested-on: WCN3990 hw1.0 WLAN.HL.3.2.2.c10-00754-QCAHLSWMTPL-1
> Tested-on: QCA6174 hw3.2 PCI WLAN.RM.4.4.1-00288-QCARMSWPZ-1
> Tested-on: QCA6174 hw3.2 SDIO WLAN.RMH.4.4.1-00189
> 
> Signed-off-by: Manikanta Pubbisetty <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Baochen Qiang <[email protected]>