[RFT] BCM4312 users with DMA errors, please test!

Chris Vine chris at cvine.freeserve.co.uk
Mon Aug 16 20:14:55 EDT 2010


On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 01:09:23 +0100
Chris Vine <chris at cvine.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

> On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 18:53:41 -0500
> Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net> wrote:
> > I tried to duplicate your boot problems without anything unexpected
> > happening.
> > 
> > I don't know what happened, but I doubt that this ssb patch was
> > responsible.
> 
> I have reproduced it twice.  It is definitely the patch, in the sense
> that it happens with the patch included (on two separate tests that I
> have conducted) and never without.
> 
> I do not doubt that you do not experience this effect.  However, you
> don't experience the DMA bug either.

Out of interest, which version of the wl module do you have installed,
as I wonder if that makes a difference?   (As I said in my e-mail on
this, this problem only occurs if the wl module is available to the
kernel.)

Chris





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