Subject: Re: [PATCH] ath9k_htc: add adaptive usb flow control to repair soft lockup with monitor mode

From: Kalle Valo <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2015 13:52:29 +0200

[email-masked] writes:

> From: Yuwei Zheng <[email-masked]>
>
> In the environment with heavy wifi traffic, set the ar9271 into monitor mode, will
> trigger a deadloop panic.
>  
> The ath9k_hif_usb_rx_cb function excute on  the interrupt context, and ath9k_rx_tasklet excute
> on the soft irq context. In other words, the ath9k_hif_usb_rx_cb have more chance to excute than
> ath9k_rx_tasklet.  So in the worst condition,  the rx.rxbuf receive list is always full,
> and the do {}while(true) loop will not be break. The kernel get a soft lockup panic. 

The word wrapping is still wrong, please limit the width to 72 chars or
so. But no need to wrap log snippets, they can exceed the limit.

> Signed-off-by: Yuwei Zheng <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: Yuwei Zheng <[email-masked]>

Why two of these? Please use just one Signed-off-by line. Unless these
are two different persons with the same name :)

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Kalle Valo