ath9k: make DMA stop related messages debug-only (#11862, #9654)
authorFelix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Thu, 2 Jul 2015 11:45:39 +0000 (11:45 +0000)
committerFelix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Thu, 2 Jul 2015 11:45:39 +0000 (11:45 +0000)
commit1c2dc7192445a7c94b31a4196c305887d3e85582
tree84704fb5b278c4e3d5ce54fe7df08b03230219f1
parentfb6d7d32cea6d9083178742fac17c2dcede7e9ba
ath9k: make DMA stop related messages debug-only (#11862, #9654)

A long time ago, ath9k had issues during reset where the DMA engine
would stay active and could potentially corrupt memory.
To debug those issues, the driver would print warnings whenever they
occur.

Nowadays, these issues are gone and the primary cause of these messages
is if the MAC is stuck during reset or busy processing a long
transmission. This is fairly harmless, yet these messages continue to
worry users.

To reduce the number of bogus bug reports, turn these messages into
debug messages and count their occurence in the "reset" debugfs file.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Backport of r46158

SVN-Revision: 46159
package/kernel/mac80211/patches/393-ath9k-make-DMA-stop-related-messages-debug-only.patch [new file with mode: 0644]