Bug#672891: brcmsmac wireless brcms_c_wait_for_tx_completion warning

[Touko Korpela <touko.korpela@iki.fi>]

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 05:11:48PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> tags 672891 + upstream patch moreinfo
> quit
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Touko Korpela wrote:
> 
> > Samsung X125 laptop. This kind of warning was logged. Also earlier
> > 3.2.x kernels do this.
> 
> Does the attached patch help?
> 
> Instructions for testing patches are at [1].
> 
> Thanks,
> Jonathan
> 
> [1] http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common-tasks.html#s-common-official
> or the corresponding page of the debian-kernel-handbook package

> From: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
> Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 21:08:58 +0100
> Subject: brcm80211: smac: fix endless retry of A-MPDU transmissions
> 
> commit 5e379203c7788b7af01150bfadbc74d2797a2ef4 upstream.

Patch looks promising but following above instructions I failed to build
patched 686-pae flavour i386 kernel using amd64 system (and not possible to build on
target machine because lack of space).