On Sunday 22 November 2009 19:11:52 Larry Finger wrote: > On 11/22/2009 11:52 AM, Michael Buesch wrote: > > 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? > > I'm testing now. So far, it has survived about 18 hours running tcpperf in one > console, and a flood ping in another. Cool. Thanks for testing. I'd have expected it to blow up, though. It's a little bit strange, because there still are reports of blowing up opensource firmware. This patch should produce better error messages in that case (it will not fix the blown firmware). > It looks really good, but I want at least > 24 hours before committing. Well, no. Just commit it, please. If this breaks, the _firmware_ has to be fixed. Not the patch. -- Greetings, Michael. -- 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
