PATCH: b44 Handle RX FIFO overflow better (simplified)
authorMark Lord <kernel@teksavvy.com>
Sat, 4 Sep 2010 14:17:59 +0000 (14:17 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Tue, 7 Sep 2010 20:57:23 +0000 (13:57 -0700)
commit32737e934a952c1b0c744f2a78d80089d15c7ee3
treeca6b640910315f78fce923b9a2d601e7dd512f31
parentcf9b94f88bdbe8a02015fc30d7c232b2d262d4ad
PATCH: b44 Handle RX FIFO overflow better (simplified)

This patch is a simplified version of the original patch from James Courtier-Dutton.

>From: James Courtier-Dutton
>Subject: [PATCH] Fix b44 RX FIFO overflow recovery.
>Date: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 - 1:11 pm
>
>This patch improves the recovery after a RX FIFO overflow on the b44
>Ethernet NIC.
>Before it would do a complete chip reset, resulting is loss of link
>for a few seconds.
>This patch improves this to do recovery in about 20ms without loss of link.
>
>Signed off by: James@superbug.co.uk

Signed-off-by: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/b44.c