Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] sky2: tx pause bug fix

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 10:27:24 -0700

On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 18:40:00 +1000
"Andrew Hall" <[email-masked]> wrote:

> >
> > If there's anything I can do to help isolate this issue please let me 
> > know.
> >
> 
> Looking through the logs I'm also intermittently seeing some of this:
> 
> sky2 eth1: rx error, status 0x7ffc0001 length 844

That means the driver is getting receive fifo overflows. You must
not be using receive flow control.

The driver takes no special action when this occurs. It isn't clear (even from
the documentation), what is supposed to be done.

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Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>