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From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: rewrite fragmentation code
Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 15:00:00 +0200
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On Thursday 08 May 2008 05:22:08 Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 03:48:06PM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote:
> >
> > So there's no way to actually fail in a TX handler? Drivers
> > are doomed to drop the packet, if they cannot handle it due to
> > ring overflow?
> 
> You're supposed to stop the queue before the ring overflows.

Ok, what about DMA error. kmalloc error or something else?
ring overflow was a bad example, of course.

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Greetings Michael.