netdev - Re: [net PATCH 1/1] drivers: net: ethernet: ti: davinci_emac: fix usage of cpdma_check_free_tx

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Date:	Sun, 17 Mar 2013 12:19:21 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	prabhakar.csengg@...il.com
Cc:	mugunthanvnm@...com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-omap@...r.kernel.org,
	davinci-linux-open-source@...ux.davincidsp.com
Subject: Re: [net PATCH 1/1] drivers: net: ethernet: ti: davinci_emac: fix
 usage of cpdma_check_free_tx_desc()

From: Prabhakar Lad <prabhakar.csengg@...il.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 12:43:14 +0530

> Hi Mugunthan
> 
> Thanks for the patch!
> 
> On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 7:40 PM, Mugunthan V N <mugunthanvnm@...com> wrote:
>> Fix which was done in the following commit in cpsw driver has
>> to be taken forward to davinci emac driver as well.
>>
>> commit d35162f89b8f00537d7b240b76d2d0e8b8d29aa0
>> Author: Daniel Mack <zonque@...il.com>
>> Date:   Tue Mar 12 06:31:19 2013 +0000
>>
>>     net: ethernet: cpsw: fix usage of cpdma_check_free_tx_desc()
>>
>>     Commit fae50823d0 ("net: ethernet: davinci_cpdma: Add boundary for rx
>>     and tx descriptors") introduced a function to check the current
>>     allocation state of tx packets. The return value is taken into account
>>     to stop the netqork queue on the adapter in case there are no free
>>     slots.
>>
>>     However, cpdma_check_free_tx_desc() returns 'true' if there is room in
>>     the bitmap, not 'false', so the usage of the function is wrong.
>>
>> Reported-by: Prabhakar Lad <prabhakar.csengg@...il.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Mugunthan V N <mugunthanvnm@...com>
> 
>  Tested-by: Lad, Prabhakar <prabhakar.csengg@...il.com>

Applied, thanks.
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