]> git.karo-electronics.de Git - linux-beck.git/commit
iwlagn: do not use interruptible waits
authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:46:52 +0000 (11:46 -0700)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Mon, 19 Sep 2011 20:10:10 +0000 (16:10 -0400)
commiteffd4d9aece9184f526e6556786a94d335e38b71
tree193f5f428dca02fc307043648e62ef0d62e59ca0
parent7d8f2d50b5082385ad0e0ab5f7dc2a6f1c19819c
iwlagn: do not use interruptible waits

Since the dawn of its time, iwlwifi has used
interruptible waits to wait for synchronous
commands and firmware loading.

This leads to "interesting" bugs, because it
can't actually handle the interruptions; for
example when a command sending is interrupted
it will assume the command completed fully,
and then leave it pending, which leads to all
kinds of trouble when the command finishes
later.

Since there's no easy way to gracefully deal
with interruptions, fix the driver to not use
interruptible waits.

This at least fixes the error
iwlagn 0000:02:00.0: Error: Response NULL in  'REPLY_SCAN_ABORT_CMD'

I have seen in P2P testing, but it is likely
that there are other errors caused by this.

Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.24+]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-ucode.c
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-rx.c
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-trans-pcie-rx.c
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-trans-pcie-tx.c