netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6 3/3] be2net: Handle out of buffer completions for lancer

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Date:	Mon, 06 Dec 2010 13:00:03 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	sathya.perla@...lex.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6 3/3] be2net: Handle out of buffer
 completions for lancer

From: Sathya Perla <sathya.perla@...lex.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 16:34:17 +0530

> If Lancer chip does not have posted RX buffers, it posts an RX completion entry
> with the same frag_index as the last valid completion. The Error bit is also
> set. In BE, a flush completion is indicated with a zero value for num_rcvd in
> the completion.
> Such completions don't carry any data and are not processed.
> This patch refactors code to handle both cases with the same code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Padmanabh Ratnakar <padmanabh.ratnakar@...lex.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sathya Perla <sathya.perla@...lex.com>

Applied.
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