On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 8:49 PM, Bruno Randolf <b...@einfach.org> wrote:
> this seems to be equivalent to what madwifi does. but it's pretty hard to
> understand why, so could you please add more comments to the code? something
> along these lines (copied from madwifi):
>
>        /* We make sure we don't remove the TX descriptor on
>                 * which the HW is pointing since it contains the
>                 * ds_link field, except if this is the last TX
>                 * descriptor in the queue */
>
> btw: ath9k does a similar thing, i think, but different...

Yeah, will do.  The issue is the hardware can say a buffer is
complete in the status registers before it reads the ds_link
from host memory.

-- 
Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com
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