Sergei Shtylyov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This driver's 4-packet deep TX queue is too sensible to the "careless" callers
> ignoring its state (like netpoll in trapped mode), so add "queue full" check 
> at
> the start of the hard_start_xmit() method (only under #ifndef RTL8139_NDEBUG,
> otherwise the queue will get stuck once dirty pointer gets out of sync); 
> switch
> to using appropriate mnemonics for the return values while at it.

Could you please describe this netpoll scenario in more detail?
More importantly, why wouldn't we fix netpoll instead?

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