Re: Correction: 2.6.16-git12 killed networking -- 3c900 card

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Pete Clements <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Quoting Steffen Klassert
>   > >   Had several of these with git11
>   > >   NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
>   > 
>   > Is this for sure that these messages occured first time with git11?
>   > There were no changes in the 3c59x driver between git10 and git11.
>   > 
> Tried 2.6.15 and could not get a timed out condition.  Looks like
> that defect is between 15 and 16 in my case.  
> 
> Be glad to do any testing that I can.
> 

Well here's one.  Steffen, please confirm.


From: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>

The pre-2.6.16 patch "3c59x collision statistics fix" accidentally caused
vortex_error() to not run iowrite16(TxEnable, ioaddr + EL3_CMD) if we got a
maxCollisions interrupt but MAX_COLLISION_RESET is not set.

Cc: Steffen Klassert <[email protected]>
Cc: Pete Clements <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
---

 drivers/net/3c59x.c |   12 +++++-------
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff -puN drivers/net/3c59x.c~3c59x-collision-statistics-fix-fix drivers/net/3c59x.c
--- devel/drivers/net/3c59x.c~3c59x-collision-statistics-fix-fix	2006-03-28 22:36:48.000000000 -0800
+++ devel-akpm/drivers/net/3c59x.c	2006-03-28 22:40:01.000000000 -0800
@@ -2085,16 +2085,14 @@ vortex_error(struct net_device *dev, int
 		}
 		if (tx_status & 0x14)  vp->stats.tx_fifo_errors++;
 		if (tx_status & 0x38)  vp->stats.tx_aborted_errors++;
+		if (tx_status & 0x08)  vp->xstats.tx_max_collisions++;
 		iowrite8(0, ioaddr + TxStatus);
 		if (tx_status & 0x30) {			/* txJabber or txUnderrun */
 			do_tx_reset = 1;
-		} else if (tx_status & 0x08) {	/* maxCollisions */
-			vp->xstats.tx_max_collisions++;
-			if (vp->drv_flags & MAX_COLLISION_RESET) {
-				do_tx_reset = 1;
-				reset_mask = 0x0108;		/* Reset interface logic, but not download logic */
-			}
-		} else {						/* Merely re-enable the transmitter. */
+		} else if ((tx_status & 0x08) && (vp->drv_flags & MAX_COLLISION_RESET))  {	/* maxCollisions */
+			do_tx_reset = 1;
+			reset_mask = 0x0108;		/* Reset interface logic, but not download logic */
+		} else {				/* Merely re-enable the transmitter. */
 			iowrite16(TxEnable, ioaddr + EL3_CMD);
 		}
 	}
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