Re: [patch] 3c59x.c

From: Alex Romosan (romosan@adonis.lbl.gov)
Date: Sat Sep 09 2000 - 06:57:46 EST


Andrew Morton <andrewm@uow.edu.au> writes:

> Please try this with your 3CCFE575BT. Quick test: go to another machine
> and run
>
> ping -f -s 50000 name_of_3com_machine
>
>
> --- 3c575_cb.c.orig Sat Sep 9 18:56:29 2000
> +++ 3c575_cb.c Sat Sep 9 18:56:20 2000
> @@ -1359,7 +1359,7 @@
> if (tx_status & 0x14) vp->stats.tx_fifo_errors++;
> if (tx_status & 0x38) vp->stats.tx_aborted_errors++;
> outb(0, ioaddr + TxStatus);
> - if ((tx_status & 0x08) && (vp->drv_flags & IS_TORNADO))
> + if ((tx_status & 0x08) && (vp->drv_flags & (IS_TORNADO|IS_CYCLONE)))
> wait_for_completion(dev, TxReset | 0x0108);
> if (tx_status & 0x30)
> do_tx_reset = 1;
>

i am not sure what i am supposed to see. i ran the test first with the
old driver and the machine didn't lockup. i tried it again with the
new one and again no lockups. another problem i saw is that i wasn't
able to remove the 3c575_cb from the kernel. i had to reboot the
machine.

--alex--

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