The change for PMAD support introduced a bug, where the ownership of RX
descriptors was given back to the LANCE in the wrong way. Occasional
lockups would happen as a result. This is a fix for this problem.
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
Tested with the onboard LANCE of a DECstation 5000/133.
Please apply.
Maciej
patch-mips-2.6.18-20060920-pmax-lance-rx-fix-0
diff -up --recursive --new-file
linux-mips-2.6.18-20060920.macro/drivers/net/declance.c
linux-mips-2.6.18-20060920/drivers/net/declance.c
--- linux-mips-2.6.18-20060920.macro/drivers/net/declance.c 2006-11-23
02:55:34.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-mips-2.6.18-20060920/drivers/net/declance.c 2006-11-30
02:26:34.000000000 +0000
@@ -628,7 +628,6 @@ static int lance_rx(struct net_device *d
/* Return the packet to the pool */
*rds_ptr(rd, mblength, lp->type) = 0;
*rds_ptr(rd, length, lp->type) = -RX_BUFF_SIZE | 0xf000;
- *rds_ptr(rd, rmd1, lp->type) = LE_R1_OWN;
*rds_ptr(rd, rmd1, lp->type) =
((lp->rx_buf_ptr_lnc[entry] >> 16) & 0xff) | LE_R1_OWN;
lp->rx_new = (entry + 1) & RX_RING_MOD_MASK;
-
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