From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox•com>
To: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia•com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife•com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl•org>, nedev <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
stable@kernel•org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] forcedeth: limit tx to 16
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:12:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47DE6012.3050301@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47D592DD.4070300@nvidia.com>
Ayaz Abdulla wrote:
> This is a critical patch which adds a workaround for a HW bug. The patch
> will limit the number of outstanding tx packets to 16. Otherwise, the HW
> could send out packets with bad checksums.
>
> The driver will still setup the tx packets into the ring, however, will
> only set the Valid bit on 16 packets at a time.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia•com>
applied
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-17 12:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-10 19:58 [PATCH] forcedeth: limit tx to 16 Ayaz Abdulla
2008-03-11 18:16 ` [stable] " Chris Wright
2008-03-17 12:12 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
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