mwifiex: Trigger a card reset on reaching tx_timeout threshold
tx_timeout doesn't always lead to a cmd_timeout. There are
occurrences where cmd_timeout never gets triggered for a long
time and we encounter a kernel crash. In this patch, we track
the consecutive timeouts (tx_timeout_cnt). When tx_timeout_cnt
exceeds the threshold, trigger a card reset thereby avoiding a
kernel crash.
Signed-off-by: Ashok Nagarajan <asnagarajan@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Stewart <pstew@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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