Commit 19252ecb authored Dec 03, 2010 by Nick Kossifidis Committed by John W. Linville Dec 06, 2010

ath5k: Always free tx buffers before reset



 * Always free tx buffers before reset, since we also empty hw queues.
 If we don't and a queue gets stuck, we'll never decrease txq_len and sw
 will keep thinking the queue is still stuck even after reset.

Signed-off-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

parent d84938c9

drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/base.c

+4 −2

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		@@ -2661,9 +2661,11 @@ ath5k_reset(struct ath5k_softc sc, struct ieee80211_channel chan,
		synchronize_irq(sc->irq);
		stop_tasklets(sc);

		if (chan) {
		/* We are going to empty hw queues
		* so we should also free any remaining
		* tx buffers */
		ath5k_drain_tx_buffs(sc);

		if (chan) {
		sc->curchan = chan;
		sc->curband = &sc->sbands[chan->band];
		}