Re: data received but not detected

[Travis Stratman <tstratman@emacinc.com>]

On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 10:37 +0100, James Chapman wrote:
> 
> The rx and tx status are flagged in the same status register. The bits 
> are set regardless of whether rx or tx interrupts are enabled in the 
> device. So when you handle a tx interrupt, the interrupt routine will 
> read the status register and may see rx bits also set.

That makes sense, I was making an incorrect assumption.
> 
> You could mask the status register value that you read to ignore rx bits 
> if rx interrupts are disabled (NAPI polled mode). But to be honest, I 
> think it is simpler to handle rx _and_ tx work in the NAPI poll handler 
> so you only get interrupts when not in NAPI polled mode. See tg3.c or 
> e100.c for example.

I will take a look at modifying the driver to use NAPI for tx.

Thanks,

Travis