netdev - [PATCH v2 4/4] 6lowpan: handle dev_queue

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Date:	Wed,  3 Apr 2013 10:00:58 -0400
From:	Alan Ott <alan@...nal11.us>
To:	Alexander Smirnov <alex.bluesman.smirnov@...il.com>,
	Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@...il.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	linux-zigbee-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Alan Ott <alan@...nal11.us>
Subject: [PATCH v2 4/4] 6lowpan: handle dev_queue_xmit() error code properly

dev_queue_xmit() will return a positive value if the packet could not be
queued, often because the real network device (in our case the mac802154
wpan device) has its queue stopped.  lowpan_xmit() should handle the
positive return code (for the debug statement) and return that value to
the higher layer so the higher layer will retry sending the packet.

Signed-off-by: Alan Ott <alan@...nal11.us>
---
 net/ieee802154/6lowpan.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ieee802154/6lowpan.c b/net/ieee802154/6lowpan.c
index e1b4580..55e1fd5 100644
--- a/net/ieee802154/6lowpan.c
+++ b/net/ieee802154/6lowpan.c
@@ -1139,10 +1139,10 @@ static netdev_tx_t lowpan_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
 error:
 	dev_kfree_skb(skb);
 out:
-	if (err < 0)
+	if (err)
 		pr_debug("ERROR: xmit failed\n");
 
-	return (err < 0 ? NETDEV_TX_BUSY : NETDEV_TX_OK);
+	return (err < 0) ? NET_XMIT_DROP : err;
 }
 
 static struct wpan_phy *lowpan_get_phy(const struct net_device *dev)
-- 
1.7.11.2

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