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

From: Larry Finger <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 23:35:30 -0500

Andrew Hall wrote:
> Unfortunately I spoke too soon.. :-(
> 
> The driver no longer appears to fail under load but still fails randomly 
> with relatively light load:
> 

I don't know if this will help, but NETDEV watchdog timeouts in the bcm43xx driver were fixed by 
changing a netif_stop_queue call into a netif_tx_disable. Why wrapping the stop_queue inside 
netif_tx_lock_bh/netif_tx_unlock_bh pairs works is beyond me, but ...

Larry