2012/1/9 MR <g7af0ec1e3ea1e7b1@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > >> So, I am building 3.2 with two patches: over/under-flow catcher (pity > >that > >> it seems to be on a multiple-times-per-second codepath and just leaving > >the > > > checks there for everyone is suboptimal) and allegedely proper fix. Both > > > applied OK with a small offset. > > > > as per our assumption, we should not see those over/underflow errors, > > with the patch > > above mentioned. please let us know if you hit upon this warnings, > > even after the proper fix. > > In my experience (and as I understand the situation) if garbage is writen to > the "chan", it is caught by the check and device is dead-until-reboot anyway. > On 3.0, even without checks device was dead-until-reboot, but no crash > happened. All these checks do is converting "panic" to "WiFi broken" for 3.2. > true those checks are to confirm that 'chan' is corrupted and the patch is to fix it. -- shafi -- 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
