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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c index 3a73d89a6501..f24ba4d426b4 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c @@ -3165,7 +3165,15 @@ static void bcm43xx_periodic_work_handler(void *d) badness = estimate_periodic_work_badness(bcm->periodic_state); mutex_lock(&bcm->mutex); + + /* We must fake a started transmission here, as we are going to + * disable TX. If we wouldn't fake a TX, it would be possible to + * trigger the netdev watchdog, if the last real TX is already + * some time on the past (slightly less than 5secs) + */ + bcm->net_dev->trans_start = jiffies; netif_tx_disable(bcm->net_dev); + spin_lock_irqsave(&bcm->irq_lock, flags); if (badness > BADNESS_LIMIT) { /* Periodic work will take a long time, so we want it to |