This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
rt2x00: rt2x00pci_regbusy_read() - only print register access failure once
to the 3.8-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
rt2x00-rt2x00pci_regbusy_read-only-print-register-access-failure-once.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 83589b30f1e1dc9898986293c9336b8ce1705dec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 12:56:28 -0700
Subject: rt2x00: rt2x00pci_regbusy_read() - only print register access failure once
From: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 83589b30f1e1dc9898986293c9336b8ce1705dec upstream.
BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1128840
It appears that when this register read fails it never recovers, so
I think there is no need to repeat the same error message ad infinitum.
Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00pci.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00pci.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00pci.c
@@ -52,8 +52,8 @@ int rt2x00pci_regbusy_read(struct rt2x00
udelay(REGISTER_BUSY_DELAY);
}
- ERROR(rt2x00dev, "Indirect register access failed: "
- "offset=0x%.08x, value=0x%.08x\n", offset, *reg);
+ printk_once(KERN_ERR "%s() Indirect register access failed: "
+ "offset=0x%.08x, value=0x%.08x\n", __func__, offset, *reg);
*reg = ~0;
return 0;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tim.gardner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.8/rt2x00-rt2x00pci_regbusy_read-only-print-register-access-failure-once.patch
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