netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v4 1/1] net: fec: Enable imx6 enet checksum acceleration.

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Message-ID: <1366387162.16391.21.camel@edumazet-glaptop>
Date:	Fri, 19 Apr 2013 08:59:22 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Jim Baxter <jim_baxter@...tor.com>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@...escale.com>,
	Frank Li <Frank.Li@...escale.com>,
	Fugang Duan <B38611@...escale.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4 1/1] net: fec: Enable imx6 enet checksum
 acceleration.

On Fri, 2013-04-19 at 16:55 +0100, Jim Baxter wrote:

> 
> I have no issue with changing it, but I am curious, by returning OK will
> the kernel not regard it a sent packet and it will be lost?

Answer is : The sender will loop forever trying to send this packet.
Just drop it and avoid a possible deadlock.

NETDEV_TX_BUSY is deprecated and its use is not for solving this kind of
problem.


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