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SubjectRe: [REGRESSION] Recent swiotlb DMA_FROM_DEVICE fixes break ath9k-based AP
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Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> writes:

> On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 07:02:16PM +0100, Halil Pasic wrote:
>> > If
>> > ddbd89deb7d3 alone turns out to work OK then I'd be inclined to try a
>> > partial revert of just that one hunk.
>> >
>>
>> I'm not against being pragmatic and doing the partial revert. But as
>> explained above, I do believe for correctness of swiotlb we ultimately
>> do need that change. So if the revert is the short term solution,
>> what should be our mid-term road-map?
>
> Unless I'm misunderstanding this thread we found the bug in ath9k
> and have a fix for that now?

According to Maxim's comment on the other subthread, that ath9k patch
wouldn't work on all platforms (and constitutes a bit of a violation of
the DMA API ownership abstraction). So not quite, I think?

-Toke

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