linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] br2684: don't send frames on not-ready vcc

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Message-ID: <1354239267.21562.249.camel@shinybook.infradead.org>
Date:	Fri, 30 Nov 2012 01:34:27 +0000
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Nathan Williams <nathan@...verse.com.au>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, chas@....nrl.navy.mil,
	krzysiek@...lesie.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] br2684: don't send frames on not-ready vcc

On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 12:18 +1100, Nathan Williams wrote:
> The customer has confirmed that they haven't seen any panics.  I tested
> these patches on OpenWrt with Kernel 3.3.8 and couldn't get a panic:

Thanks.

> I haven't tested these ones:
> 
> 230a012 pppoatm: fix missing wakeup in pppoatm_send()
> 1c0c800 atm: Add release_cb() callback to vcc

The race that fixes is fairly unlikely, but if you do see transmit
stalls you can make them apply to your 3.3.8 kernel by applying the same
preliminary patch that is now in the OpenWRT Attitude Adjustment branch:
https://dev.openwrt.org/browser/branches/attitude_adjustment/target/linux/generic/patches-3.3/080-prot-release-cb.patch

-- 
dwmw2


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