[Prism54-devel] [patch 0/6] [prism54 svn trunk] various fixes for prism54 svn

[Bruno Randolf]

hello jean-baptiste!

thanks for this patches! they solve the "out of memory" problems i had with 
management frames (failed kmalloc in islpci_mgt_receive) - it works now :)

platform: mips32 (au1500), little endian
kernel: 2.4.27

greetings,
bruno

On Sunday 15 May 2005 13:44, jean-baptiste.note at wanadoo.fr wrote:
> Dear list, Joerg, Bob,
>
> This is a set of patches to try and somehow improve the current SVN
> state. Please tell me if the format is incorrect, i'm still trying to
> learn the ropes. They should apply cleanly on prism54 svn trunk, one
> after another.
>
> * First patch fixes the problem on rmmoding the driver. this allows
> testing to be done properly. The problem was fairly trivial (but
> important), confusing skb for skb->data. You should try it, Joerg !
>
> * Second patch make the rx in skbs, and frees the skb when done. This
> brings nothing to the table _now_, but it can be used to get rid of the
> needless memcpy in the mgmt rx path. To be done soon if this patch is
> accepted.
>
> * Third and forth patch implement Rainer's shortening of the irq path.
>
> * Fifth puts the cleanup work in a tasklet. I'm not sure this is a good
> idea, but we do a big chunk of work in this codepath, and my
> understanding was that we shouldn't do all of this in an interrupt
> handler. However, i've not taken great care to use tasklet_disable but
> when removing the driver. This may need some more work.
>
> * Sixth brings a fixup from the softmac driver. I don't know if the case
> can happen with fullmac cards, but it costs practically nothing to do
> the check.
>
> I have hope that those patches will fix the mgmt timeout issue that a
> number of people are experimenting. I don't know the precise bugzilla
> numbers associated with them, but i'd really but thankful if people
> affected could try out these patches.
>
> In particular, could you try these before resorting to the windows
> driver fix, Bob ?
>
> Cheers,
> JB
>
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