From: "John W. Linville" <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:37:14 -0400 > On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:30:45PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > > When a driver rejects a frame in it's ->tx() callback, it must also > > stop queues, otherwise mac80211 can go into a loop here. Detect this > > situation and abort the loop after five retries, warning about the > > driver bug. > > > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > This is a port of the patch to 2.6.26 which seems to suffer from the > > same problem and could well be the cause of some of the mac80211 softlockup > > warnings on kerneloops.org. > > > > Dave, with John on vacation until the 22nd, would you push this to Linus > > with the next net update instead of it going through John's tree first? > > This is fine with me. Otherwise I'll try to get to it in the next > day or so. I'll toss it into my tree, don't worry about it. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
