From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 19:41:13 -0300 From: Ricardo Scop Reply-To: scop@digitel.com.br Message-ID: <12820.011205@digitel.com.br> To: Jean-Denis Boyer Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org, Dan Malek , andy_lowe@mvista.com Subject: Re[2]: Kernel oops while routing In-reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Jean-Denis, Wednesday, December 05, 2001, 3:01:28 PM, you wrote: JDB> IMHO, I could suggest an easier patch, that would result in modifying only JDB> one line of code, without changing the 'tx_full' logic. In function JDB> fcc_enet_start_xmit, instead of checking the ready bit (which is bad), we JDB> could only check if cur_tx has reached dirty_tx, and then call JDB> netif_stop_queue. Does it make sense? Make sense to me. I'll try it out. JDB> BTW, I worked hard last week in debugging the fcc_enet driver. It was not JDB> handling correctly some transmission errors, resulting in the transmitter JDB> completely stopping, without restarting. This is related to an errata JDB> (CPM37) from Motorola about the 8260, concerning the way of restarting the JDB> transmitter. If someone is interested, I can release a patch for that. I'm interested! Ricardo Scop mailto:scop@vanet.com.br R SCOP Consulting ------------------------------------------------------------------ "What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do." ~Bob Dylan ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/