From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Chr <chunkeey@web.de>
Cc: John W Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] p54: Fix for TX sequence number problem that resulted from commit 741b4fbc44
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:29:07 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <489C5833.2080009@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200808081026.49041.chunkeey@web.de>
Chr wrote:
> ???
> What is this for? The firmware does the sequence number counting
> and will simply override this field without looking at it... Are you sure this
> really fixes anything?
>
> That said: the firmware will always report the sequence number of every
> tx'ed frame as a part of p54_frame_sent_hdr in the _free_ tx callback...
Without this patch, my p54usb would go offline every 2-3 hours. To recover, the
driver had to be unloaded and reloaded. With it, the device has never gone
offline for as long as I have tested. I have no idea what the firmware does, but
it has helped my system.
Larry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-08 14:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-05 16:23 [PATCH] p54: Fix for TX sequence number problem that resulted from commit 741b4fbc44 Larry Finger
2008-08-08 8:26 ` Chr
2008-08-08 14:29 ` Larry Finger [this message]
2008-08-08 18:38 ` Chr
2008-08-09 16:02 ` Larry Finger
2008-08-09 16:43 ` Chr
2008-08-09 18:11 ` Larry Finger
2008-08-10 14:19 ` Larry Finger
2008-08-10 22:27 ` Chr
2008-08-10 23:04 ` Larry Finger
2008-08-13 22:15 ` Chr
2008-08-15 18:34 ` Chr
2008-08-15 19:26 ` Johannes Berg
2008-08-15 20:15 ` Chr
2008-08-15 20:17 ` Johannes Berg
2008-08-15 21:06 ` Chr
2008-08-15 21:13 ` Johannes Berg
2008-08-16 0:34 ` Larry Finger
2008-08-16 2:21 ` Chr
2008-08-16 14:00 ` Larry Finger
2008-08-16 14:38 ` Chr
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