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Re: [PATCH v2] iwlwifi: fix DMA code and bugs

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On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 18:42 +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> > This patch cleans up the DMA code to be understandable and not
> > completely wrong. In particular:
> >  * there is no need to have a weird iwl_tfd_frame_data struct that is
> >    used 10 times, just use an address struct 20 times
> >  * therefore, all the is_odd junk goes away
> >  * fix a bug in iwl_hcmd_queue_reclaim where it would reclaim all the
> >    fragments of a descriptor rather than all descriptors (this may be
> >    the cause of the dma unmapping problem I reported)
> >  * some more cleanups
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > Tested on 5000 hw, please apply.
> > 
> > v2: fixes small issue with getting rid of iwl_get_dma_hi_address.
> 
> if this fixes the crashes with my 4965 card in my X61, then this is a
> candidate for 2.6.27-rc8. I will built a new kernel for my X61 as soon
> as possible.

I doubt it will, but who knows. Let me know. Right now I'm trying to
massage  the code into something readable.

johannes

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