mt76: fix system recovery routine for MT7915 #3436
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This is a draft-PR to fix the longstanding "Message timed out" errors with mt7915 based radios.
I've had positive experience with this patchset over the last 3 weeks and appreciate feedback from communities which frequently face this problem.
Sometimes, the node itself might crash when attempting recovery. I'm not entirely sure where this is happening, but it seems to be somewhere else in the mac80211 stack. The node comes back online by itself, so i still consider this an improvement over the current situation.
Log from a recovered node: