Re: [PATCH wireless] wifi: b43: map the RX buffers DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL

[Rosen Penev]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2026 at 1:58 PM Michael Büsch <m@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Fri, 23 Oct 2026 13:44:44 -0700
> Rosen Penev <rosenp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > All code is tested on an Asus RT-N16. It runs on non-coherent MIPS.
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> Ok.
>
> Describe your development process in human language during patch submission.
I assume that would mostly be appropriate for a cover letter.
> What has been tested?
> What has not been tested?
> What was wrong?
> What has been fixed?
> Why is this needed?
> Why do we need bidirectional DMA and most important why wasn't it necessary before?
Because the codepath is not fatal. One or two duplicated frames. Big deal.
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> AI is great for code generation, bug finding, etc.
> But for patch submission, pull requests and commit messages it's absolutely unusable.
> Please don't do it.
> Write your commit messages manually, please.
I've been burned by this many times before where maintainers ask me to
reword or mention something. It's not practical and wastes everyone's
time, which is why I'm almost banned from netdev.
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> Please make your commit message be to the point and easy to review.
> And please slow the process down.
> You don't need to submit patches right away. Keep them in a queue and STABILIZE them LOCALLY.
I figure since wireless doesn't depend on the merge window unlike
wireless-next I can send them whenever.
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> Please do a little bit of research whom to To and Cc. There are scripts for that.
Yeah. All of this goes through ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl

Do note this is an orphaned driver. I expect feature patches to get
clogged up and Fixes: to get in a bit easier.
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> Thanks a lot.
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> Michael Büsch
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