Thommy Jakobsson 73b82bf0bf B43: Handle DMA RX descriptor underrun ...

Add handling of rx descriptor underflow. This fixes a fault that could
happen on slow machines, where data is received faster than the CPU can
handle. In such a case the device will use up all rx descriptors and
refuse to send any more data before confirming that it is ok. This
patch enables necessary interrupt to discover such a situation and will
handle them by dropping everything in the ring buffer.

Reviewed-by: Michael Buesch <m@bues.ch>
Signed-off-by: Thommy Jakobsson <thommyj@gmail.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

2013-05-08 17:15:06 -04:00

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