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Re: Make b43 driver fall back gracefully to PIO mode after fatal DMA errors

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On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 9:06 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Larry Finger wrote:
>> >
>> > Incidentally, we have learned today that the fault does not occur when running
>> > MMIO traces, and that it is not SMP related.
>>
>> Timing? I guess MMIO tracing will slow down the actual command setup part
>> a lot.
>
> Adding a "udelay(10)" to the "b43_write[16|32]()" functions doesn't make
> any difference on the machine I have access to, though.
>
> Ill happily test other ideas or patches. Automatically falling back to PIO
> makes things work, but I'd obviously _much_ rather have working DMA.
>
>                        Linus

Does actually enabling mmiotrace fix it for you too?

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