On 11/19/2009 03:24 PM, 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> > > --- Tested and ACKed by Larry Finger. Not only does this improve the error handling for b43, but it also appears to fix the skb == NULL error that I experienced with the open-source firmware. John - please push this into wireless-testing. It should also go to 2.6.32, but it is likely too large for the current stage. At least Cc it to stable. Larry -- 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
