The patch titled Spidernet: Cleanup return codes has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is spidernet-cleanup-return-codes.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: Cleanup return codes From: Linas Vepstas <linas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Simplify the somewhat convoluted use of return codes in the rx buffer handling. 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 | 32 ++++++++++++-------------------- 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/net/spider_net.c~spidernet-cleanup-return-codes drivers/net/spider_net.c --- a/drivers/net/spider_net.c~spidernet-cleanup-return-codes +++ a/drivers/net/spider_net.c @@ -911,12 +911,10 @@ spider_net_do_ioctl(struct net_device *n * @descr: descriptor to process * @card: card structure * - * returns 1 on success, 0 if no packet was passed to the stack - * * Fills out skb structure and passes the data to the stack. * The descriptor state is not changed. */ -static int +static void spider_net_pass_skb_up(struct spider_net_descr *descr, struct spider_net_card *card) { @@ -961,8 +959,6 @@ spider_net_pass_skb_up(struct spider_net /* update netdevice statistics */ card->netdev_stats.rx_packets++; card->netdev_stats.rx_bytes += skb->len; - - return 1; } /** @@ -981,7 +977,6 @@ spider_net_decode_one_descr(struct spide struct spider_net_descr_chain *chain = &card->rx_chain; struct spider_net_descr *descr = chain->tail; int status; - int result; status = spider_net_get_descr_status(descr); @@ -999,8 +994,6 @@ spider_net_decode_one_descr(struct spide /* descriptor definitively used -- move on tail */ chain->tail = descr->next; - result = 0; - /* unmap descriptor */ pci_unmap_single(card->pdev, descr->buf_addr, SPIDER_NET_MAX_FRAME, PCI_DMA_FROMDEVICE); @@ -1012,8 +1005,7 @@ spider_net_decode_one_descr(struct spide pr_err("%s: dropping RX descriptor with state %d\n", card->netdev->name, status); card->netdev_stats.rx_dropped++; - dev_kfree_skb_irq(descr->skb); - goto refill; + goto bad_desc; } if ( (status != SPIDER_NET_DESCR_COMPLETE) && @@ -1022,8 +1014,7 @@ spider_net_decode_one_descr(struct spide pr_err("%s: RX descriptor with unkown state %d\n", card->netdev->name, status); card->spider_stats.rx_desc_unk_state++; - dev_kfree_skb_irq(descr->skb); - goto refill; + goto bad_desc; } /* The cases we'll throw away the packet immediately */ @@ -1033,17 +1024,18 @@ spider_net_decode_one_descr(struct spide "data_status=x%08x, data_error=x%08x\n", card->netdev->name, descr->data_status, descr->data_error); - card->spider_stats.rx_desc_error++; - dev_kfree_skb_irq(descr->skb); - goto refill; + goto bad_desc; } - /* ok, we've got a packet in descr */ - result = spider_net_pass_skb_up(descr, card); -refill: - /* change the descriptor state: */ + /* Ok, we've got a packet in descr */ + spider_net_pass_skb_up(descr, card); descr->dmac_cmd_status = SPIDER_NET_DESCR_NOT_IN_USE; - return result; + return 1; + +bad_desc: + dev_kfree_skb_irq(descr->skb); + descr->dmac_cmd_status = SPIDER_NET_DESCR_NOT_IN_USE; + return 0; } /** _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from linas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch spidernet-dma-coalescing.patch spidernet-add-net_ratelimit-to-suppress-long-output.patch spidernet-remove-rxramfull-tasklet.patch spidernet-cleanup-un-needed-api.patch spidernet-rx-skb-mem-leak.patch spidernet-another-skb-mem-leak.patch spidernet-cleanup-return-codes.patch spidernet-rx-refill.patch spidernet-remove-unused-variable.patch spidernet-rx-chain-tail.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