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iwlwifi: silently ignore fw flaws in Tx path
authorEmmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Sun, 2 Dec 2012 07:56:44 +0000 (09:56 +0200)
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Mon, 10 Dec 2012 21:39:28 +0000 (22:39 +0100)
commit27edb1accf5695ff00a32c85c4a00ac7e1e7f298
tree30c19e68800a11387af9068e40f09c8ce835becd
parent8907a6fb6281a9aa25df2c7e2996cedcd6e5559f
iwlwifi: silently ignore fw flaws in Tx path

We know that we have issues with the fw in the reclaim path.
This is why iwl_reclaim doesn't complain too loud when it
happens since it is recoverable. Somehow, the caller of
iwl_reclaim however WARNed when it happens. This doesn't
make any sense.

When I digged into the history of that code, I discovered
that this bug occurs only when we receive a BA notification.
So move the W/A in the BA notification handling code where
it was before.

This patch addresses:
http://bugzilla.intellinuxwireless.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2387

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Florian Reitmeir <florian@reitmeir.org>
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/dvm/tx.c