[PATCH] B43: Handle DMA RX descriptor underrun

John W. Linville linville at tuxdriver.com
Tue May 28 13:37:37 EDT 2013


On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 03:37:02PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> 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.

OK, thanks -- sorry for the confusion!

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