On Monday 23 November 2009 02:34:09 Larry Finger wrote: > 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. I don't think there's any way it can fix this. The patch doesn't change the code behavior. It just changes the sanity checks, that under normal circumstances should never trigger. > 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. Don't put it into stable. This is not a fix. I don't think it's suitable for 2.6.32 at this stage, too. -- 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
