netdev - [patch 09/10] forcedeth: fix tx timeout

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Date:	Mon, 26 Mar 2007 21:47:28 -0800
From:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
To:	jeff@...zik.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	aabdulla@...dia.com
Subject: [patch 09/10] forcedeth: fix tx timeout

From: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@...dia.com>

The tx timeout routine was waking the tx queue conditionally.  However, it
must call it unconditionally since the dev_watchdog has halted the tx queue
before calling the timeout function.

Signed-off-by: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@...dia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
---

 drivers/net/forcedeth.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN drivers/net/forcedeth.c~forcedeth-fix-tx-timeout drivers/net/forcedeth.c
--- a/drivers/net/forcedeth.c~forcedeth-fix-tx-timeout
+++ a/drivers/net/forcedeth.c
@@ -2050,9 +2050,10 @@ static void nv_tx_timeout(struct net_dev
 		nv_drain_tx(dev);
 		nv_init_tx(dev);
 		setup_hw_rings(dev, NV_SETUP_TX_RING);
-		netif_wake_queue(dev);
 	}
 
+	netif_wake_queue(dev);
+
 	/* 4) restart tx engine */
 	nv_start_tx(dev);
 	spin_unlock_irq(&np->lock);
_
-
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