netdev - Re: brcm WARN() on v3.7.2

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Message-ID: <1359213274.6252.257.camel@cumari.coelho.fi>
Date:	Sat, 26 Jan 2013 17:14:34 +0200
From:	Luciano Coelho <coelho@...com>
To:	<balbi@...com>
CC:	Arend van Spriel <arend@...adcom.com>,
	Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@...adcom.com>,
	Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@...ke-m.de>,
	<linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	<brcm80211-dev-list@...adcom.com>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: brcm WARN() on v3.7.2

On Sat, 2013-01-26 at 14:56 +0200, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 11:53:09AM +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> > On 01/25/2013 09:23 PM, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> > > Hi folks,
> > > 
> > > I'm running Fedora 18 with v3.7.2 on her MacBookAir 11" and it
> > > turns out that brcm is acting out, see below full dmesg. Any tips ?
> > > Is this fixed already ?
> > 
> > Thanks, Felipe
> > 
> > The warning itself means flush timed out, ie. not all outstanding
> > packets could be transmitted. It does not necessarily mean the driver
> > is failing. So do you have any connectivity issues after the warning
> > has occurred?
> 
> not really, just thought I'd mention it ;-)

If the warning is benign, maybe it shouldn't be a warning at all?

--
Luca.

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