Re: [PATCH 4/13]: PCI Err: e100 ethernet driver recovery

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 18:58 -0500, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> /** e100_io_error_detected() is called when PCI error is detected */
> +static int e100_io_error_detected (struct pci_dev *pdev, enum
> pci_channel_state state)
> +{
> +       struct net_device *netdev = pci_get_drvdata(pdev);
> +       struct nic *nic = netdev_priv(netdev);
> +
> +       mod_timer(&nic->watchdog, jiffies + 30*HZ);
> +       e100_down(nic);
> +
> +       /* Request a slot reset. */
> +       return PCIERR_RESULT_NEED_RESET;
> +}

I'm not sure just "pushing" the watchdog timer to 30sec in the future is
the way to go here. What about netif_stop_queue() or so ?

Ben.

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