From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
Lorenzo Nava <navalorenx@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] b43: Rewrite DMA Tx status handling sanity checks
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:52:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200911221852.19143.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200911192224.29491.mb@bu3sch.de>
On Thursday 19 November 2009 22:24:29 Michael Buesch wrote:
> This rewrites the error handling policies in the TX status handler.
> It tries to be error-tolerant as in "try hard to not crash the machine".
> It won't recover from errors (that are bugs in the firmware or driver),
> because that's impossible. However, it will return a more or less useful
> error message and bail out. It also tries hard to use rate-limited messages
> to not flood the syslog in case of a failure.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
So did somebody try this with opensource firmware, yet?
--
Greetings, Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-22 17:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-19 21:24 [PATCH] b43: Rewrite DMA Tx status handling sanity checks Michael Buesch
2009-11-22 17:52 ` Michael Buesch [this message]
2009-11-22 18:11 ` Larry Finger
2009-11-22 18:19 ` Michael Buesch
2009-11-23 1:34 ` Larry Finger
2009-11-23 10:30 ` Michael Buesch
2009-11-23 4:45 ` Larry Finger
2009-11-23 10:49 ` Michael Buesch
2009-11-23 11:00 ` Francesco Gringoli
2009-11-23 11:05 ` Michael Buesch
2009-11-23 15:41 ` Larry Finger
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