From: "Michael Chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:32:00 -0800
> On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 17:41 -0500, Tony Battersby wrote: > > I am experiencing network data corruption with a 3Com 3C996B-T NIC > > (Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5701; driver tg3.ko). I have identified the > > following patch as the trigger: > > Assuming this problem is unique to the 5701, I'm not sure how it is > exposed by Herbert's patch. One thing unique on the 5701 is that it > double-copies all RX packets so that the data starts at offset 2, but > that's quite unrelated to the patch below. One consequence of Herbert's change is that the chip will see a different datastream. The initial skb->data linear area will be smaller, and the transition to the fragmented area of pages will be quicker. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
