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From: Ricardo Scop <scop@digitel.com.br>
To: Jean-Denis Boyer <jdboyer@mediatrix.com>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org,
	Dan Malek <dan@embeddededge.com>,
	andy_lowe@mvista.com
Subject: Re[2]: Kernel oops while routing
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 19:41:13 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <12820.011205@digitel.com.br> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F1BED55F35F4D3118C0F00E0295CFF4DFF9E7F@mail.mediatrix.com>


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

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-12-05 22:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-05 18:01 Kernel oops while routing Jean-Denis Boyer
2001-12-05 18:21 ` Peter Desnoyers
2001-12-05 18:33   ` Dan Malek
2001-12-05 22:41 ` Ricardo Scop [this message]
2001-12-07 15:56 ` Arto Vuori
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-11-29 22:42 Dan Malek
2001-12-05  3:24 ` Re[2]: " Ricardo Scop

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