wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: restrict MAC start retry to timeouts

We had reverted the retry loop removal because of an issue
with PNVM loading, but that issue manifests as timeouts.
Since the retries aren't needed in other cases, only do
them when there were timeouts while starting, not other
errors.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241227095718.98201c79f66d.I5d7e12b219d533c6a77741ec5863984d35711f48@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/mac80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/mac80211.c
index 3984e58..cc2f3c0 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/mac80211.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/mac80211.c
@@ -1311,7 +1311,7 @@ int iwl_mvm_mac_start(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
 
        for (retry = 0; retry <= max_retry; retry++) {
                ret = __iwl_mvm_mac_start(mvm);
-               if (!ret)
+               if (ret != -ETIMEDOUT)
                        break;
 
                IWL_ERR(mvm, "mac start retry %d\n", retry);