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From: "Michael Büsch" <m@bues.ch>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>,
	zajec5@gmail.com, isedev@gmail.com,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, b43-dev@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [RFC/RFT] b43: A fix for DMA transmission sequence errors
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:55:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130314195549.56fea051@milhouse> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51421afb.xUa3KbaBuvmUk4RG%Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>

On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 13:46:19 -0500
Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> wrote:

>  	if (unlikely(slot != firstused)) {
>  		/* This possibly is a firmware bug and will result in
> -		 * malfunction, memory leaks and/or stall of DMA functionality. */
> +		 * malfunction, memory leaks and/or stall of DMA functionality.
> +		 */
>  		b43dbg(dev->wl, "Out of order TX status report on DMA ring %d. "
>  		       "Expected %d, but got %d\n",
>  		       ring->index, firstused, slot);
> -		return;
> +		if (slot == firstused + 2) {

I guess you need to handle wrap-over here.
This would probably do:
		if (slot == next_slot(ring, next_slot(ring, firstused)))

-- 
Michael
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-14 18:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-14 18:46 [RFC/RFT] b43: A fix for DMA transmission sequence errors Larry Finger
2013-03-14 18:55 ` Michael Büsch [this message]
2013-03-14 20:17 ` Rafał Miłecki
2013-03-15  6:37   ` Rafał Miłecki
2013-03-15 16:48     ` Larry Finger
2013-03-20 11:26       ` ISE Development
2013-03-20 13:43         ` Chris Vine
2013-03-20 14:53         ` Larry Finger
2013-03-20 15:04           ` ISE Development
2013-03-20 16:10             ` Chris Vine
2013-03-15  0:09 ` ISE Development
2013-03-15  2:07   ` Larry Finger

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