Re: rtl8192cu: slow path warning

From: Larry Finger
Date: Tue Jul 23 2013 - 11:05:35 EST


On 07/23/2013 07:29 AM, Paul Rolland (ããããããã) wrote:
Hello,

On Thu, 27 Jun 2013 09:33:20 +0200
Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Yes, of course, you can add my
Reported-by: Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@xxxxxxxxx>

But the patch doesn't compile on my platform ( since I'm on ARM, I
haven't got a PCI bus, so rtlwifi/pci.c is not compiled ) :

ERROR: "rtl_lps_change_work_callback"
[drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtlwifi.ko] undefined!

Is that the reason why this patch is not yet in 3.10.x or 3.11-rcY ?
I'm running a 3.10.1 with USB dongle including 8192CU, and I can see this
warning when the machine starts.
I've check 3.10.1, 3.10.2 and 3.11-rc3 source code, but this fix is not
there. Is there a different fix that went in in 3.10.2 or 3.11-rc?

The reason that patch is not in mainline is that it takes time. If you want to have it, you can get the official patch from http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=137242880222442&w=2, or you need to implement kernels from the wireless-testing git tree, where it was added on June 28 as commit bcfb879. My original patch included the following note for John Linville:

"Ideally, this patch should be pushed to the 3.10 stream; however, at this late time that is not possible. Please push it for 3.11 and the Cc to stable will get it into 3.10.X."

As you see, it was marked with a Cc for Stable, and it will be propagated to 3.10 when it gets incorporated by Linus. I think I have done all that I can do for now.

If you want to lobby Linus to get stuff accepted faster, that is your prerogative; however, I could not recommend that action, and I certainly will never do anything like that.

Larry

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