From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
To: yuweizheng@139.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ath9k-devel@venema.h4ckr.net,
        linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, ath9k-devel@qca.qualcomm.com,
        netdev@vger.kernel.org, Yuwei Zheng <zhengyuwei@360.cn>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ath9k_htc: add adaptive usb flow control to repair soft lockup with monitor mode
References: <1422957585-19736-1-git-send-email-yuweizheng@139.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2015 13:52:29 +0200
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	(yuweizheng@139.com's message of "Tue, 3 Feb 2015 17:59:45 +0800")
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yuweizheng@139.com writes:

> From: Yuwei Zheng <yuweizheng@139.com>
>
> In the environment with heavy wifi traffic, set the ar9271 into monitor mode, will
> trigger a deadloop panic.
>  
> The ath9k_hif_usb_rx_cb function excute on  the interrupt context, and ath9k_rx_tasklet excute
> on the soft irq context. In other words, the ath9k_hif_usb_rx_cb have more chance to excute than
> ath9k_rx_tasklet.  So in the worst condition,  the rx.rxbuf receive list is always full,
> and the do {}while(true) loop will not be break. The kernel get a soft lockup panic. 

The word wrapping is still wrong, please limit the width to 72 chars or
so. But no need to wrap log snippets, they can exceed the limit.

> Signed-off-by: Yuwei Zheng <zhengyuwei@360.cn>
> Signed-off-by: Yuwei Zheng <yuweizheng@139.com>

Why two of these? Please use just one Signed-off-by line. Unless these
are two different persons with the same name :)

-- 
Kalle Valo
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