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From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] b43: Force-wake queues on init
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:38:15 +0200
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On Thursday 10 September 2009 20:34:36 Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> wrote:
> > Force wake the mac80211 queues on init.
> > Under rare circumstances they may be stopped, if a DMA error or
> > something else causes a device reset while a queue was stopped.
> 
> So this is a work around for some unknown issue on the driver?

No, it's a fix for a bug that should not trigger in practice very often.

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Greetings, Michael.