Return-path: Received: from 80-190-117-144.ip-home.de ([80.190.117.144]:39922 "EHLO bu3sch.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756031Ab0FSOhz (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jun 2010 10:37:55 -0400 Message-ID: <4C1CCDA3.40502@bu3sch.de> Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 16:01:07 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Michael_B=FCsch?= MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Larry Finger CC: John W Linville , b43-dev@lists.infradead.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] b43: Clarify logged message after fatal DMA error and switch to PIO mode References: <4c1cc624.Whz955JR9XYzqjst%Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> (sfid-20100619_152832_048688_17D51150) In-Reply-To: <4c1cc624.Whz955JR9XYzqjst%Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> (sfid-20100619_152832_048688_17D51150) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 06/19/2010 03:29 PM, Larry Finger wrote: > The message following fatal DMA errors fails to indicate properly that the > driver has switched to PIO mode. > > Signed-off-by: Larry Finger > --- > > Index: wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c > =================================================================== > --- wireless-testing.orig/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c > +++ wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c > @@ -1804,7 +1804,7 @@ static void b43_do_interrupt_thread(stru > dma_reason[2], dma_reason[3], > dma_reason[4], dma_reason[5]); > b43err(dev->wl, "This device does not support DMA " > - "on your system. Please use PIO instead.\n"); > + "on your system. It will now be switched to PIO.\n"); > /* Fall back to PIO transfers if we get fatal DMA errors! */ > dev->use_pio = 1; > b43_controller_restart(dev, "DMA error"); > Ack. But what's the current status of the debugging of the PCI-core code w.r.t DMA? -- Greetings Michael.