[PATCH] B43: Handle DMA RX descriptor underrun

Larry Finger Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net
Sat May 25 16:37:02 EDT 2013


On 05/25/2013 02:42 PM, Michael Büsch wrote:
> On Sat, 25 May 2013 21:37:32 +0200
> Hauke Mehrtens <hauke at hauke-m.de> wrote:
>
>> On 05/25/2013 09:02 PM, Thommy Jakobsson wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, 24 May 2013, John W. Linville wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ping?  Should I drop this one?
>>>>
>>> Still working great on my device, so from that I think we should go for
>>> it. But it would be great if Rafal (or someone) tested it on some other
>>> hardware as well.
>>>
>>> //Thommy
>>
>> This is included in OpenWrt for ~4 weeks now and I haven't read of
>> anybody complaining about any new problems introduced by this patch or
>> something which looks like the DMA under run.
>> I am also for adding this to the kernel.
>
> I'm probably missing something, but isn't this patch already in Linus' tree?
> It's in stable review after all.

The patch is in wireless-testing with John's s-o-b, and in the mainline tree 
with the same annotation.

It has been working OK here, but my devices did not show underrun.

Larry





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