netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/6] r8169: check dma mapping failures

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Date:	Fri, 15 Oct 2010 15:41:58 +0200
From:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
To:	Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Denis Kirjanov <kirjanov@...il.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] r8169: check dma mapping failures

Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com> :
> Check possible dma mapping errors and do clean up if it happens,
> when sending frames stop the tx queue.

Almost ok: NETDEV_TX_BUSY can not be used like that. Afaik the DMA
failure path in the driver really wants a NETDEV_TX_OK (and a device
stats update, though missing in tg3 ?).

Actually the former NETDEV_TX_BUSY condition mostly checks for a bug.

-- 
Ueimor
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