Re: [PATCH] fec: fix FEC driver packet transmission breakage

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 13:58:18 +1000

> fec: fix FEC driver packet transmission breakage
> 
> Commit f0b3fbeae11a526c3d308b691684589ee37c359b 

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> breaks transmission of
> packets where the skb data buffer is not memory aligned according to
> FEC_ALIGNMENT. It incorrectly passes to dma_sync_single() the buffer
> address directly from the skb, instead of the address calculated for
> use (which may be the skb address or one of the bounce buffers).
> 
> It seems there is no use converting the cpu address of the buffer to
> a physical either, since dma_map_single() expects the cpu address and
> will return the dma address to use in the descriptor. So remove the use
> of __pa() on the buffer address as well.
> 
> This patch is against 2.6.30-rc5. This breakage is a regression over
> 2.6.30, which does not have this problem.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>

Applied.