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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Michael Buesch wrote:
> 
> I'd rather appreciate that somebody who owns such a device and can reproduce the bug
> would do some _real_ debugging on the issue instead.

I have the hardware, I can reproduce the bug 100% of the time.

So send me a patch. I'll try it. But I have no hardware docs, nor any 
information about how that SSB bridge is supposed to work, or why DMA 
might be failing.

			Linus