From: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
To: Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
Mattias Nissler <mattias.nissler@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] rc80211-pid: add sanity check
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:51:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080127195145.21c1a667@morte> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <479CB7A0.6090000@lwfinger.net>
On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 09:56:00 -0700
Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net> wrote:
> Although the real cause of the bug is due to selecting a trial value for the new rate that can never
> be satisfied, I think that this sanity check is a reasonable way to detect and stop the runaway. As
> this condition is likely to affect a lot of systems, I think the WARN_ON(1) should be removed from
> the final version of the patch. With it in, a lot of logs will get spammed.
Agreed. I'm going to post a quite different patch which aims to solve the
root cause. John, please disregard this one.
--
Ciao
Stefano
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-27 18:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-26 3:05 [PATCH 2/2] rc80211-pid: add sanity check Stefano Brivio
2008-01-26 3:20 ` Larry Finger
2008-01-26 11:19 ` Michael Buesch
2008-01-26 19:40 ` Lars
2008-01-27 12:42 ` Stefano Brivio
2008-01-27 13:22 ` mac80211 refcounting bug was: " Stefano Brivio
2008-01-27 14:32 ` Stefano Brivio
2008-01-27 13:53 ` Lars Ericsson
2008-01-27 16:56 ` Larry Finger
2008-01-27 18:51 ` Stefano Brivio [this message]
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