[PATCH] ssb: Clear RETRY_TIMEOUT in PCI Configuration

[John W. Linville]

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 12:55:55PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> MMIO log traces obtained using the Broadcom wl hybrid driver show that
> the RETRY_TIMEOUT register (0x41) in PCI configuration space is cleared
> if non-zero. Similar code found in other drivers such as ipw2100 show
> this operation is needed to keep PCI Tx retries from interfering with
> C3 CPU state. There are no known cases where omission of this code has
> caused a problem, but this patch is offered just in case such a situation
> occurs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net>
> ---
> 
> John,
> 
> No particular urgency for this patch.
> 
> Larry

I nearly missed it!  Please do Cc linux-wireless at vger.kernel.org on patches.

John
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