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Commit 32737e93 authored by Mark Lord's avatar Mark Lord Committed by David S. Miller
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PATCH: b44 Handle RX FIFO overflow better (simplified)



This patch is a simplified version of the original patch from James Courtier-Dutton.

>From: James Courtier-Dutton
>Subject: [PATCH] Fix b44 RX FIFO overflow recovery.
>Date: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 - 1:11 pm
>
>This patch improves the recovery after a RX FIFO overflow on the b44
>Ethernet NIC.
>Before it would do a complete chip reset, resulting is loss of link
>for a few seconds.
>This patch improves this to do recovery in about 20ms without loss of link.
>
>Signed off by: James@superbug.co.uk

Signed-off-by: default avatarMark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent cf9b94f8
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