Return-path: Received: from bu3sch.de ([62.75.166.246]:34586 "EHLO vs166246.vserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965876Ab0BZT7S (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:59:18 -0500 From: Michael Buesch To: Larry Finger Subject: Re: Make b43 driver fall back gracefully to PIO mode after fatal DMA errors Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:59:01 +0100 Cc: Linus Torvalds , "John W. Linville" , "David S. Miller" , wireless , Greg Kroah-Hartman References: <4B881C70.9030004@lwfinger.net> In-Reply-To: <4B881C70.9030004@lwfinger.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Message-Id: <201002262059.02383.mb@bu3sch.de> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Friday 26 February 2010 20:09:36 Larry Finger wrote: > On 02/26/2010 12:34 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > This makes the b43 driver just automatically fall back to PIO mode when > > DMA doesn't work. > > > > The driver already told the user to do it, so rather than have the user > > reload the module with a new flag, just make the driver do it > > automatically. We keep the message as an indication that something is > > wrong, but now just automatically fall back to the hopefully working PIO > > case. > > > > Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds > > --- Where is that patch? I can't find it in any list archives. -- Greetings, Michael.