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authorStanislav Yakovlev <stas.yakovlev@gmail.com>2012-04-19 15:55:09 -0400
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>2012-05-11 13:14:53 +0100
commit12427fbf470faaf535915f4efc878eb46cb74c8c (patch)
treecb07f9b144ba539f1a003ca0e43dfd4c126194d2 /fs/compat_ioctl.c
parentb110a7c55ab6ad4dc953396236451ff885326e5b (diff)
ipw2200: Fix race condition in the command completion acknowledge
commit dd447319895d0c0af423e483d9b63f84f3f8869a upstream. Driver incorrectly validates command completion: instead of waiting for a command to be acknowledged it continues execution. Most of the time driver gets acknowledge of the command completion in a tasklet before it executes the next one. But sometimes it sends the next command before it gets acknowledge for the previous one. In such a case one of the following error messages appear in the log: Failed to send SYSTEM_CONFIG: Already sending a command. Failed to send ASSOCIATE: Already sending a command. Failed to send TX_POWER: Already sending a command. After that you need to reload the driver to get it working again. This bug occurs during roaming (reported by Sam Varshavchik) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=738508 and machine booting (reported by Tom Gundersen and Mads Kiilerich) https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/28097 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=802106 This patch doesn't fix the delay issue during firmware load. But at least device now works as usual after boot. Signed-off-by: Stanislav Yakovlev <stas.yakovlev@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
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