Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 16 Nov 2006 10:09:29 -0600 | From | Larry Finger <> | Subject | Re: [patch 07/30] bcm43xx: Drain TX status before starting IRQs |
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Chris Wright wrote: > -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. > ------------------ > > From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> > > Drain the Microcode TX-status-FIFO before we enable IRQs. > This is required, because the FIFO may still have entries left > from a previous run. Those would immediately fire after enabling > IRQs and would lead to an oops in the DMA TXstatus handling code. > > Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com> > Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> > Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> > Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> > ---
Chris,
We have a report of a regression between 2.6.19-rc3 and -rc5. As this patch seems to be the only one that could cause the problem, please pull it from -stable while we sort out the difficulty.
Thanks,
Larry
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