On 11/22/2010 12:53 PM, Michael Büsch wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-11-22 at 12:41 -0600, Larry Finger wrote: 
>> Under heavy load with multiple streams, I'm getting errors from my BCM4312
>> (14e4:4315) device as follows:
>>
>> b43-phy0 debug: TX-status contains invalid cookie: 0x0D4D
>> b43-phy0 debug: Out of order TX status report on DMA ring 1. Expected 74, 
>> but got 76
>> b43-phy0 debug: Out of order TX status report on DMA ring 1. Expected 74, 
>> but got 78
>> (and continues).
>>
>> Clearly that cookie is garbage as it has a slot number of 0. Any suggestions 
>> on
>> diagnostic information that I could dump to help debug this?
> 
> I think that probably is a firmware or hardware bug. The affected
> kernel code was not changed in years, as far as I know.

Thanks. I'll see if I can figure out a way for the driver to recover more
gracefully. In the meantime, I will be dumping the entire TX status struct to
see if that helps in seeing what is wrong.

Larry

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