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Re: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH] ath9k: Clear DMA addresses when buffers are freed.

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On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 04:33:28PM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> On 10/15/2010 02:29 PM, greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > From: Ben Greear<greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Previous patches cleared the pointer to the SKB, but did not
> > clear the DMA addresses.  This patch moves the clear logic into
> > a method and makes sure that the DMA addresses are cleared as well.
> >
> > This does not obviously fix any bug, but may make it harder to
> > cause bugs in the future.
> 
> I wanted to follow up to see if there was any interest in this patch,
> as it received no comment and has not been accepted upstream.

I'd rather not introduce code unless you know
for sure its doing something useful.

 Luis
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