From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] b43: Rewrite DMA Tx status handling sanity checks
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:52:17 +0100
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
	Lorenzo Nava <navalorenx@gmail.com>
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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 the firmware or driver),
> because that's impossible. However, it will return a more or less useful
> error message and bail out. It also tries hard to use rate-limited messages
> to not flood the syslog in case of a failure.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>

So did somebody try this with opensource firmware, yet?

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Greetings, Michael.