netdev - Re: PATCH: b44 Handle RX FIFO overflow better (simplified)

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Message-Id: <20100906.183539.241915973.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:35:39 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	kernel@...savvy.com
Cc:	linux-kernel-owner@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	James@...erbug.co.uk
Subject: Re: PATCH: b44 Handle RX FIFO overflow better (simplified)

From: Mark Lord <kernel@...savvy.com>
Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2010 20:17:59 -0400

> This patch is a simplified version of the original patch from James Courtier-Dutton.
> 
>>From: James Courtier-Dutton
>>Subject: [PATCH] Fix b44 RX FIFO overflow recovery.
>>Date: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 - 1:11 pm
>>
>>This patch improves the recovery after a RX FIFO overflow on the b44
>>Ethernet NIC.
>>Before it would do a complete chip reset, resulting is loss of link
>>for a few seconds.
>>This patch improves this to do recovery in about 20ms without loss of link.
>>
>>Signed off by: James@...erbug.co.uk
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Lord <mlord@...ox.com>

Applied, thanks Mark.
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