Re: [PATCH] b43: Rewrite DMA Tx status handling sanity checks

2009-11-23 Thread Michael Buesch
On Monday 23 November 2009 02:34:09 Larry Finger wrote: On 11/19/2009 03:24 PM, 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

Re: [PATCH] b43: Rewrite DMA Tx status handling sanity checks

2009-11-23 Thread Michael Buesch
On Monday 23 November 2009 05:45:47 Larry Finger wrote: On 11/19/2009 03:24 PM, 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

Re: [PATCH] b43: Rewrite DMA Tx status handling sanity checks

2009-11-23 Thread Michael Buesch
On Monday 23 November 2009 12:00:15 Francesco Gringoli wrote: Hi Michael, so you can observe this behavior at your site. Do you mind describing the exact configuration? Maybe this time I can reproduce this behavior, as I tried everything to make it happen. I also asked Larry one of

Re: [PATCH] b43: Rewrite DMA Tx status handling sanity checks

2009-11-23 Thread Francesco Gringoli
On Nov 23, 2009, at 11:49 AM, Michael Buesch wrote: On Monday 23 November 2009 05:45:47 Larry Finger wrote: On 11/19/2009 03:24 PM, 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

Re: [PATCH] b43: Rewrite DMA Tx status handling sanity checks

2009-11-23 Thread Larry Finger
On 11/23/2009 05:00 AM, Francesco Gringoli wrote: so you can observe this behavior at your site. Do you mind describing the exact configuration? Maybe this time I can reproduce this behavior, as I tried everything to make it happen. I also asked Larry one of his boards and put it into

Re: [PATCH] b43: Rewrite DMA Tx status handling sanity checks

2009-11-22 Thread Larry Finger
On 11/22/2009 11:52 AM, Michael Buesch wrote: 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

Re: [PATCH] b43: Rewrite DMA Tx status handling sanity checks

2009-11-22 Thread Michael Buesch
On Sunday 22 November 2009 19:11:52 Larry Finger wrote: On 11/22/2009 11:52 AM, Michael Buesch wrote: 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

Re: [PATCH] b43: Rewrite DMA Tx status handling sanity checks

2009-11-22 Thread Larry Finger
On 11/19/2009 03:24 PM, 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,

[PATCH] b43: Rewrite DMA Tx status handling sanity checks

2009-11-19 Thread Michael Buesch
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