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 files 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
@@ -513,7 +513,6 @@ spider_net_alloc_rx_skbs(struct spider_n
/* 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
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
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