diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/sdio.c b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/sdio.c
index 44eb65acafddc1115edd31671e85e3789832b59a..b3aca10a71f2055b9a8c2e290b9ff5465e9948e1 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/sdio.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/sdio.c
@@ -104,7 +104,6 @@ mwifiex_sdio_probe(struct sdio_func *func, const struct sdio_device_id *id)
 	init_completion(&card->fw_done);
 
 	card->func = func;
-	card->device_id = id;
 
 	func->card->quirks |= MMC_QUIRK_BLKSZ_FOR_BYTE_MODE;
 
@@ -2196,33 +2195,13 @@ mwifiex_update_mp_end_port(struct mwifiex_adapter *adapter, u16 port)
 		    port, card->mp_data_port_mask);
 }
 
-static void mwifiex_recreate_adapter(struct sdio_mmc_card *card)
+static struct mwifiex_adapter *save_adapter;
+static void mwifiex_sdio_card_reset_work(struct mwifiex_adapter *adapter)
 {
+	struct sdio_mmc_card *card = adapter->card;
 	struct sdio_func *func = card->func;
-	const struct sdio_device_id *device_id = card->device_id;
-
-	/* TODO mmc_hw_reset does not require destroying and re-probing the
-	 * whole adapter. Hence there was no need to for this rube-goldberg
-	 * design to reload the fw from an external workqueue. If we don't
-	 * destroy the adapter we could reload the fw from
-	 * mwifiex_main_work_queue directly.
-	 * The real difficulty with fw reset is to restore all the user
-	 * settings applied through ioctl. By destroying and recreating the
-	 * adapter, we take the easy way out, since we rely on user space to
-	 * restore them. We assume that user space will treat the new
-	 * incarnation of the adapter(interfaces) as if they had been just
-	 * discovered and initializes them from scratch.
-	 */
 
-	__mwifiex_sdio_remove(func);
-
-	/*
-	 * Normally, we would let the driver core take care of releasing these.
-	 * But we're not letting the driver core handle this one. See above
-	 * TODO.
-	 */
-	sdio_set_drvdata(func, NULL);
-	devm_kfree(&func->dev, card);
+	mwifiex_shutdown_sw(adapter);
 
 	/* power cycle the adapter */
 	sdio_claim_host(func);
@@ -2235,21 +2214,7 @@ static void mwifiex_recreate_adapter(struct sdio_mmc_card *card)
 	clear_bit(MWIFIEX_IFACE_WORK_DEVICE_DUMP, &iface_work_flags);
 	clear_bit(MWIFIEX_IFACE_WORK_CARD_RESET, &iface_work_flags);
 
-	mwifiex_sdio_probe(func, device_id);
-}
-
-static struct mwifiex_adapter *save_adapter;
-static void mwifiex_sdio_card_reset_work(struct mwifiex_adapter *adapter)
-{
-	struct sdio_mmc_card *card = adapter->card;
-
-	/* TODO card pointer is unprotected. If the adapter is removed
-	 * physically, sdio core might trigger mwifiex_sdio_remove, before this
-	 * workqueue is run, which will destroy the adapter struct. When this
-	 * workqueue eventually exceutes it will dereference an invalid adapter
-	 * pointer
-	 */
-	mwifiex_recreate_adapter(card);
+	mwifiex_reinit_sw(adapter);
 }
 
 /* This function read/write firmware */
@@ -2677,6 +2642,33 @@ mwifiex_sdio_reg_dump(struct mwifiex_adapter *adapter, char *drv_buf)
 	return p - drv_buf;
 }
 
+/* sdio device/function initialization, code is extracted
+ * from init_if handler and register_dev handler.
+ */
+static void mwifiex_sdio_up_dev(struct mwifiex_adapter *adapter)
+{
+	struct sdio_mmc_card *card = adapter->card;
+	u8 sdio_ireg;
+
+	sdio_claim_host(card->func);
+	sdio_enable_func(card->func);
+	sdio_set_block_size(card->func, MWIFIEX_SDIO_BLOCK_SIZE);
+	sdio_release_host(card->func);
+
+	/* tx_buf_size might be changed to 3584 by firmware during
+	 * data transfer, we will reset to default size.
+	 */
+	adapter->tx_buf_size = card->tx_buf_size;
+
+	/* Read the host_int_status_reg for ACK the first interrupt got
+	 * from the bootloader. If we don't do this we get a interrupt
+	 * as soon as we register the irq.
+	 */
+	mwifiex_read_reg(adapter, card->reg->host_int_status_reg, &sdio_ireg);
+
+	mwifiex_init_sdio_ioport(adapter);
+}
+
 static struct mwifiex_if_ops sdio_ops = {
 	.init_if = mwifiex_init_sdio,
 	.cleanup_if = mwifiex_cleanup_sdio,
@@ -2702,6 +2694,7 @@ static struct mwifiex_if_ops sdio_ops = {
 	.reg_dump = mwifiex_sdio_reg_dump,
 	.device_dump = mwifiex_sdio_device_dump,
 	.deaggr_pkt = mwifiex_deaggr_sdio_pkt,
+	.up_dev = mwifiex_sdio_up_dev,
 };
 
 module_driver(mwifiex_sdio, sdio_register_driver, sdio_unregister_driver);
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/sdio.h b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/sdio.h
index cdbf3a3ac7f994fbb56ced7df60b501199976202..afa10d5031cfb28f98fbed49056d3dd37e498fa4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/sdio.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/sdio.h
@@ -267,9 +267,6 @@ struct sdio_mmc_card {
 
 	struct mwifiex_sdio_mpa_tx mpa_tx;
 	struct mwifiex_sdio_mpa_rx mpa_rx;
-
-	/* needed for card reset */
-	const struct sdio_device_id *device_id;
 };
 
 struct mwifiex_sdio_device {