Request for bisecting DMA partial fix

Rafał Miłecki zajec5 at gmail.com
Thu Nov 25 04:22:22 EST 2010


W dniu 8 listopada 2010 20:42 użytkownik Rafał Miłecki
<zajec5 at gmail.com> napisał:
> We are quite sure that some patch than gone into mainline between
> 2.6.34 and 2.6.35 partially fixed DMA errors. It was not b43-specific
> fix and it probably wasn't commited via wireless-testing.
>
> The problem is this fix was only partial, under high transfer this is
> still noticeable. I think the shortest way to understand this and fix
> it totally is to find commit that partially fixed DMA errors.
>
> So we need someone with:
> 1) Machine that throws DMA errors on 2.6.34 and works noticeably
> better with 2.6.35
> 2) Time to bisect commit
> 3) Basic kernel building skills (however I believe we can help in case
> of problems)
>
> I believe bisecting has to be done on Linus's tree, between mentioned kernels.
>
> So is there anyone around who could handle this task?

Anyone? Please?

-- 
Rafał



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