The patch titled
spidernet: avoid possible RX chain corruption
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
spidernet-avoid-possible-rx-chain-corruption.patch
See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find
out what to do about this
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Subject: spidernet: avoid possible RX chain corruption
From: Linas Vepstas <linas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Delete possible source of chain corruption; the hardware already knows the
location of the tail, and writing it again is likely to mess it up.
Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: James K Lewis <jklewis@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/spider_net.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN drivers/net/spider_net.c~spidernet-avoid-possible-rx-chain-corruption drivers/net/spider_net.c
--- a/drivers/net/spider_net.c~spidernet-avoid-possible-rx-chain-corruption
+++ a/drivers/net/spider_net.c
@@ -1195,7 +1195,6 @@ spider_net_handle_rxram_full(struct spid
while (spider_net_decode_one_descr(card, 0));
spider_net_refill_rx_chain(card);
- spider_net_enable_rxchtails(card);
spider_net_enable_rxdmac(card);
netif_rx_schedule(card->netdev);
spider_net_rx_irq_on(card);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from linas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
hvcs-char-driver-janitoring-move-block-of-code.patch
spidernet-dma-coalescing.patch
spidernet-add-net_ratelimit-to-suppress-long-output.patch
spidernet-rx-locking.patch
spidernet-refactor-rx-refill.patch
spidernet-rx-skb-mem-leak.patch
spidernet-another-skb-mem-leak.patch
spidernet-cleanup-return-codes.patch
spidernet-rx-refill.patch
spidernet-merge-error-branches.patch
spidernet-remove-unused-variable.patch
spidernet-rx-chain-tail.patch
spidernet-turn-rx-irq-back-on.patch
spidernet-memory-barrier.patch
spidernet-avoid-possible-rx-chain-corruption.patch
spidernet-rx-debugging-printout.patch
spidernet-rework-rx-linked-list.patch
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