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

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On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> so even if mmiotrace fixes it for others, it's not working for me.

Side note: In case this is timing-related: the machine in question is a 
dual-core 1.3Ghz CPU (Core 2 Duo U1400). I think SMP has always been 
enabled, I don't think I ever tried UP.

Also, in addition to the PIO fallback code, that particular mmiotrace test 
was done with the "udelay(10)" added to the b43_write*() functions. So it 
was even slower.

Maybe the bug only happens on slow machines (and then the udelay obviously 
wouldn't help!), but that would not explain why mmiotrace might then 
_hide_ the bug for some people.

			Linus
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