[PATCH] orinoco: fix BAP0 offset error after several days of operation

After several days of operation of Netgear MA311 card, the card becomes
to seek improperly and needs reset. This patch tries to reset the card
when this situation occurs.

Mar  9 06:45:16 berkeley kernel: wlan0: Error -5 writing packet to BAP
Mar  9 06:45:16 berkeley kernel: hermes @ f992a000: BAP0 offset error: reg=0x4044 id=0x128 offset=0x44
Mar  9 06:45:16 berkeley kernel: wlan0: Error -5 writing packet to BAP
Mar  9 06:45:16 berkeley kernel: hermes @ f992a000: BAP0 offset error: reg=0x4044 id=0x128 offset=0x44
(etc.)

A more detailed description of the problem can be found at
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=154773
The same problem with different card is reported at
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=14597046

Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c b/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c
index 4d6373814b937579ef13461ff51dfc5aaed0dff6..80cf6fba3798ddedeaecde6f9990a2e3dbaf5051 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c
@@ -536,6 +536,8 @@ static int orinoco_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
        return NETDEV_TX_OK;
 
  busy:
+       if (err == -EIO)
+               schedule_work(&priv->reset_work);
        orinoco_unlock(priv, &flags);
        return NETDEV_TX_BUSY;
 }