On Sun, 21 Apr 2013 15:27:49 +0100
Piotras <piot...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Based on BCM440X Programmer's Reference Guide that may or may not
> apply to DMA processor used in WLAN chipsets, B43_DMA32_RXSTATUS may
> be updated by hardware to point to the same descriptor as
> B43_DMA32_RXINDEX.
> 
> For DMA processor this means that no more free descriptors are
> available. However b43_dma_rx assumes no data needs to be processed
> (see how ring->current_slot is updated and used in loop condition on
> next interrupt). This could explain stalls.

Yes this is why it stalls. But how to fix this without additional counting?
I'd rather prefer wiping the whole ring in that case.

-- 
Michael

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