From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: "ath9k-devel@venema.h4ckr.net" <ath9k-devel@venema.h4ckr.net>,
"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH] ath9k: Clear DMA addresses when buffers are freed.
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:36:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101028233636.GB2985@tux> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CCA0848.7080001@candelatech.com>
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 04:33:28PM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> On 10/15/2010 02:29 PM, greearb@candelatech.com wrote:
> > From: Ben Greear<greearb@candelatech.com>
> >
> > Previous patches cleared the pointer to the SKB, but did not
> > clear the DMA addresses. This patch moves the clear logic into
> > a method and makes sure that the DMA addresses are cleared as well.
> >
> > This does not obviously fix any bug, but may make it harder to
> > cause bugs in the future.
>
> I wanted to follow up to see if there was any interest in this patch,
> as it received no comment and has not been accepted upstream.
I'd rather not introduce code unless you know
for sure its doing something useful.
Luis
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-28 23:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-15 21:29 [PATCH] ath9k: Clear DMA addresses when buffers are freed greearb
2010-10-28 23:33 ` Ben Greear
2010-10-28 23:36 ` Luis R. Rodriguez [this message]
2010-10-28 23:44 ` [ath9k-devel] " Ben Greear
2010-10-29 13:21 ` John W. Linville
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