iwi leaks memory?

Yann Berthier yb at bashibuzuk.net
Sun Feb 18 23:12:38 UTC 2007


On Sun, 18 Feb 2007, at 16:20, Max Laier wrote:

> The linux driver uses one continuous buffer as well.  I tried to hand in 
> separate buffers, but it failed to initialize the firmware.  Attached is 
> a diff (for HEAD and RELENG_6) to allocate the DMA buffer once and keep 
> it around.  As I said earlier: As long as the firmware is as (un)stable 
> as it is now, this might be the only sensible way.  All in all it's not 
> that bad, as we "only" throw away 212966 bytes.
> 
> Could you please confirm that this works for you?

   Patch applied and in use - iwi is now able to survive regular down/up
   link events. 


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