netdev - Re: Mark IPW2100 as BROKEN: Fatal interrupt. Scheduling firmware restart.

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Message-ID: <20080921113513.16677c4e@infradead.org>
Date:	Sun, 21 Sep 2008 11:35:13 -0700
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	ipw2100-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, yi.zhu@...el.com,
	reinette.chatre@...el.com, jgarzik@...ox.com,
	linville@...driver.com, davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: Mark IPW2100 as BROKEN: Fatal interrupt. Scheduling firmware
 restart.

On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:28:38 +0400
Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru> wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 11:04:22AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven
> (arjan@...radead.org) wrote:
> > so now you go from an occasional burp to having nothing at all.
> > How about you run with this patch on your own machine only?
> 
> And how else user can get attention to the problem which is not fixed
> by the vendor? 

... or the community

> We close our eyes and there is no problem, since we do
> not see it. I just brought a lamp: no user can see that essentially
> driver is broken so he can run it on his own risk.
> 
> > or.. since you say a reload of the driver fixes it.. why don't you
> > make a patch for the driver that does basically the actions of a
> > reload automatically when the driver detects the issue?
> > (and stick a WARN_ON in for good measure so that kerneloops.org can
> > start tracking these burps)
> 
> It stops after several seconds (or packets?). Sometimes (but rarely)
> it works several minutes, sometimes it fires above dmesg line and
> continues to work, sometimes it fires it for a while and then stops
> writing it, although driver does not send or receive anything (at
> least ifconfig counters do not change).

again.. so how about you detect this condition and do, in the driver
code, the equivalent of rmmod/insmod to the hardware. I'm sure people
who have the hardware would appreciate that type of patch a lot more
than the one you sent out.




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