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Re: [PATCH] b43legacy: Fix failure in rate-adjustment mechanism

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On Sat, 2008-09-06 at 14:59 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:

> In the V3 specs, I found
> 
> "Transmit Status
> 
> When this interrupt is set, the retrieve the TransmitStatus. Note that 
> on cores with revision < 5, the last DMA controller or PIO queue can 
> also also get the DMA recieve done interrupt, which also triggers the 
> TransmitStatus retrieval process. The driver should be prepared to 
> deal with both interrupts at any time, on any revision. In AP mode, 
> this interrupt also initiates the sending of powersave responses."

Yeah, this isn't entirely correct, when the core revision is < 5 then
the register-based TX status doesn't actually exist and the firmware
always uses the FIFO-based mechanism.

> The implication is that the interrupt will only be generated if we use 
> the last (i.e. #5) DMA controller. As we are only using #3, no 
> interrupts and handle_irq_status() is dead code.

Right, only core revisions 2 and 4 are supported here.

johannes

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