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Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:31:50 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com> To: Erik Mouw <mouw@...linux.org> CC: netdev@...r.kernel.org, "Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P" <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com>, jamal <hadi@...erus.ca> Subject: Re: [PATCH] xircom_cb should return NETDEV_TX_BUSY when there are no descriptors available Erik Mouw wrote: > On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 06:56:54PM +0100, Erik Mouw wrote: >> Changes in other networking paths uncovered a bug in the xircom_cb >> driver which made the kernel spew lots of the following error messages: >> >> BUG eth1 code -5 qlen 0 >> >> It turned out that the driver returned -EIO when there was no >> descriptor available for sending packets. It should return >> NETDEV_TX_BUSY instead. This was discussed on the netdev list before, >> see http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/84603 . >> >> Signed-off-by: Erik Mouw <mouw@...linux.org> > > Forgot to tell: the patch is against 2.6.24 but should apply cleanly to > the latest git kernel. The xircom_cb driver appears to be orphaned so > I've send the patch to you. Yep, that's the right thing to do... Jeff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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