On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 16:51 +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote: > > I don't see the point of calling PacketRxReady() from i82559_can_send(). > > The point of "can_send()" is to determine of the device can accept any > > more packets *to transmit* - received packets should not be part of that > > calculation. > > There is a comment in the code from Hugo. Sending a packet can > potentially loose a receive interrupt. So it tries a receiver after > doing the send just to recover from the lost interrupt.
Ah, broken hardware :-( -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | Consulting for the MLB Associates | Embedded world ------------------------------------------------------------ -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss
