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Re: [PATCH] b43: Rewrite DMA Tx status handling sanity checks

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On Thursday 19 November 2009 22:24:29 Michael Buesch wrote:
> This rewrites the error handling policies in the TX status handler.
> It tries to be error-tolerant as in "try hard to not crash the machine".
> It won't recover from errors (that are bugs in the firmware or driver),
> because that's impossible. However, it will return a more or less useful
> error message and bail out. It also tries hard to use rate-limited messages
> to not flood the syslog in case of a failure.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@xxxxxxxxx>

So did somebody try this with opensource firmware, yet?

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