Re: [PATCH v2] iwlwifi: fix DMA code and bugs

[Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>]

Hi John,

> This patch cleans up the DMA code to be understandable and not
> completely wrong. In particular:
>  * there is no need to have a weird iwl_tfd_frame_data struct that is
>    used 10 times, just use an address struct 20 times
>  * therefore, all the is_odd junk goes away
>  * fix a bug in iwl_hcmd_queue_reclaim where it would reclaim all the
>    fragments of a descriptor rather than all descriptors (this may be
>    the cause of the dma unmapping problem I reported)
>  * some more cleanups
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
> ---
> Tested on 5000 hw, please apply.
> 
> v2: fixes small issue with getting rid of iwl_get_dma_hi_address.

if this fixes the crashes with my 4965 card in my X61, then this is a
candidate for 2.6.27-rc8. I will built a new kernel for my X61 as soon
as possible.

Regards

Marcel