linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] net: macb: remove BUG_ON() and reset the queue to handle RX errors

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Date:	Fri, 25 Mar 2016 11:44:23 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	cyrille.pitchen@...el.com
Cc:	nicolas.ferre@...el.com, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, soren.brinkmann@...inx.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, narmstrong@...libre.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] net: macb: remove BUG_ON() and reset the queue
 to handle RX errors

From: Cyrille Pitchen <cyrille.pitchen@...el.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 10:37:34 +0100

> This patch removes two BUG_ON() used to notify about RX queue corruptions
> on macb (not gem) hardware without actually handling the error.
> 
> The new code skips corrupted frames but still processes faultless frames.
> Then it resets the RX queue before restarting the reception from a clean
> state.
> 
> This patch is a rework of an older patch proposed by Neil Armstrong:
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/371525/
> 
> Signed-off-by: Cyrille Pitchen <cyrille.pitchen@...el.com>
> Acked-by: Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@...libre.com>
> Acked-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...el.com>

Applied, thank you.