From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: linas@austin.ibm.com (Linas Vepstas) Subject: [PATCH 0/18] spidernet driver bug fixes Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 14:17:07 -0500 Message-ID: <20070607191707.GA7904@austin.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: cbe-oss-dev@ozlabs.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Return-path: Received: from e34.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.152]:51287 "EHLO e34.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933954AbXFGTRK (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jun 2007 15:17:10 -0400 Received: from d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com (d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.106]) by e34.co.us.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l57JH9iT031124 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2007 15:17:09 -0400 Received: from d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (d03av04.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.170]) by d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v8.3) with ESMTP id l57JH8qn198976 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2007 13:17:08 -0600 Received: from d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id l57JH8Wq014692 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2007 13:17:08 -0600 Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Jeff, please apply for the 2.6.23 kernel tree. The pach series consists of two major bugfixes, and several bits of cleanup. The major bug fixes are: 1) a rare but fatal bug involving "RX ram full" messages, which results in a driver deadlock. 2) misconfigured TX interrupts, causing a sever performance degardation for small packets. Minor updates include an expanded ring dump routine, and documentation for some portions of the device driver. --linas