From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: [PATCH] (4/4) acenic - don't spin forever in hard_start_xmit Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 11:46:27 -0700 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20040920114627.4968a4fa.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20040920104724.2a5d2b47@dell_ss3.pdx.osdl.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jes@wildopensource.com, jgarzik@pobox.com, netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: Stephen Hemminger In-Reply-To: <20040920104724.2a5d2b47@dell_ss3.pdx.osdl.net> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 10:47:24 -0700 Stephen Hemminger wrote: > + /* The ring is stuck full. */ > + printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: Transmit ring stuck full\n", dev->name); > + return NETDEV_TX_BUSY; OK, but only because it's a long timeout and the kernel log gets a reasonable message.