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Re: [PATCH] B43: Handle DMA RX descriptor underrun

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On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 09:00:59AM +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> 2013/4/23 Thommy Jakobsson <thommyj@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > From: Thommy Jakobsson <thommyj@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Add handling of rx descriptor underflow. This fixes a fault that could
> > happen on slow machines, where data is received faster than the CPU can
> > handle. In such a case the device will use up all rx descriptors and
> > refuse to send any more data before confirming that it is ok. This
> > patch enables necessary interrupt to discover such a situation and will
> > handle them by dropping everything in the ring buffer.
> 
> Thanks for working on this, I didn't really got enough time to follow
> your active discussion actively.
> 
> I'll try to test this patch on my devices over the next weekend.

Any word on this testing?  Should this go to 3.10?

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