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

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On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 18:49 +0200, Tomas Winkler wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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
> 
> In the hardware this is defined as couples

So? That doesn't actually matter at all.

> >  * 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.
> 
> Great job,  however do not apply this before I review it I had strong
> feeling this will not
> work with aggregation flows.

I cannot imagine why you think that, care to explain?

johannes

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