The patch titled spidernet: RX Chain tail has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is spidernet-rx-chain-tail.patch See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: spidernet: RX Chain tail From: Linas Vepstas <linas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tell the hardware the location of the rx ring tail. More punctuation cleanup. 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 | 15 ++++++++------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/net/spider_net.c~spidernet-rx-chain-tail drivers/net/spider_net.c --- a/drivers/net/spider_net.c~spidernet-rx-chain-tail +++ a/drivers/net/spider_net.c @@ -457,10 +457,10 @@ spider_net_refill_rx_chain(struct spider } /** - * spider_net_alloc_rx_skbs - allocates rx skbs in rx descriptor chains + * spider_net_alloc_rx_skbs - Allocates rx skbs in rx descriptor chains * @card: card structure * - * returns 0 on success, <0 on failure + * Returns 0 on success, <0 on failure. */ static int spider_net_alloc_rx_skbs(struct spider_net_card *card) @@ -471,17 +471,18 @@ spider_net_alloc_rx_skbs(struct spider_n result = -ENOMEM; chain = &card->rx_chain; - /* put at least one buffer into the chain. if this fails, - * we've got a problem. if not, spider_net_refill_rx_chain - * will do the rest at the end of this function */ + /* Put at least one buffer into the chain. if this fails, + * we've got a problem. If not, spider_net_refill_rx_chain + * will do the rest at the end of this function. */ if (spider_net_prepare_rx_descr(card, chain->head)) goto error; else chain->head = chain->head->next; - /* this will allocate the rest of the rx buffers; if not, it's - * business as usual later on */ + /* This will allocate the rest of the rx buffers; + * if not, it's business as usual later on. */ spider_net_refill_rx_chain(card); + spider_net_enable_rxchtails(card); spider_net_enable_rxdmac(card); return 0; _ 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html