[PATCH] b43: Clarify logged message after fatal DMA error and switch to PIO mode

Larry Finger Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net
Sat Jun 19 09:29:08 EDT 2010


The message following fatal DMA errors fails to indicate properly that the
driver has switched to PIO mode.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at wfinger.net>
---

Index: wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c
===================================================================
--- wireless-testing.orig/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c
+++ wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c
@@ -1804,7 +1804,7 @@ static void b43_do_interrupt_thread(stru
 			       dma_reason[2], dma_reason[3],
 			       dma_reason[4], dma_reason[5]);
 			b43err(dev->wl, "This device does not support DMA "
-			       "on your system. Please use PIO instead.\n");
+			       "on your system. It will now be switched to PIO.\n");
 			/* Fall back to PIO transfers if we get fatal DMA errors! */
 			dev->use_pio = 1;
 			b43_controller_restart(dev, "DMA error");



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