On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 04:53:54PM +0300, Sergei Shtylyov wrote: > Mark Brown wrote:
> >confused and eventually locks up. Before locking up it will usually > >report one or more oversided packets so this is a useful hint that we > >should reset the recieve state machine in order to recover from this. > That's all good by why we need to completely lose TX and other interrupts > in the meantime? High inbound traffic doesn't necessarily mean a high > outbound one, does it? While the code in the driver can cope if the chip takes a while to respond to the reset as far as I have been able to tell in testing it does so close enough to immediately to avoid repeating the loop at all. The effect on transmit processing should be minimal. -- "You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever."
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