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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] ibm_newemac:  Fixes kernel crashes when speed of cable
 connected changes
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:14:30 -0400
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To: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
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Stefan Roese wrote:
> From: Sathya Narayanan <sathyan@teamf1.com>
> 
> The descriptor pointers were not initialized to NIL values, so it was
> poiniting to some random addresses which was completely invalid. This
> fix takes care of initializing the descriptor to NIL values and clearing
> the valid descriptors on clean ring operation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sathya Narayanan <sathyan@teamf1.com>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
> ---
> Changed since V1:
> - Fixed off-by-one error in for loops
> 
>  drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c |    6 +++++-
>  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

I didn't see any answers to ben h's questions?

Holding this patch, waiting for ben's ack...