[PATCH] B43: Handle DMA RX descriptor underrun

Rafał Miłecki zajec5 at gmail.com
Wed Apr 24 03:00:59 EDT 2013


2013/4/23 Thommy Jakobsson <thommyj at gmail.com>:
> From: Thommy Jakobsson <thommyj at gmail.com>
>
> Add handling of rx descriptor underflow. This fixes a fault that could
> happen on slow machines, where data is received faster than the CPU can
> handle. In such a case the device will use up all rx descriptors and
> refuse to send any more data before confirming that it is ok. This
> patch enables necessary interrupt to discover such a situation and will
> handle them by dropping everything in the ring buffer.

Thanks for working on this, I didn't really got enough time to follow
your active discussion actively.

I'll try to test this patch on my devices over the next weekend.

-- 
Rafał



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