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authorErik Waling <erik.waling@konftel.se>2009-04-15 23:32:10 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-04-17 01:30:33 -0700
commitee33c58541bae92669fe64a39f695ab533d0de14 (patch)
tree851d392d9a9517e0e0bcc545c76d4729e4391d3b /drivers/net
parent2f3889f42ec7c2b0c3049ecdd8e4687b6930779a (diff)
macb: Handle Retry Limit Exceeded errors
When transfering large amounts of data we sometimes experienced that the Retry Limit Exceeded (RLE) bit got set in TSR during transmission attempts. When this happened the driver would stall in a state that prevented any more data from being sent. Signed-off-by: Erik Waling <erik.waling@konftel.com> Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/macb.c10
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/macb.c b/drivers/net/macb.c
index 46073de290cf..9fcc717f4d1a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/macb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/macb.c
@@ -316,10 +316,11 @@ static void macb_tx(struct macb *bp)
dev_dbg(&bp->pdev->dev, "macb_tx status = %02lx\n",
(unsigned long)status);
- if (status & MACB_BIT(UND)) {
+ if (status & (MACB_BIT(UND) | MACB_BIT(TSR_RLE))) {
int i;
- printk(KERN_ERR "%s: TX underrun, resetting buffers\n",
- bp->dev->name);
+ printk(KERN_ERR "%s: TX %s, resetting buffers\n",
+ bp->dev->name, status & MACB_BIT(UND) ?
+ "underrun" : "retry limit exceeded");
/* Transfer ongoing, disable transmitter, to avoid confusion */
if (status & MACB_BIT(TGO))
@@ -590,7 +591,8 @@ static irqreturn_t macb_interrupt(int irq, void *dev_id)
}
}
- if (status & (MACB_BIT(TCOMP) | MACB_BIT(ISR_TUND)))
+ if (status & (MACB_BIT(TCOMP) | MACB_BIT(ISR_TUND) |
+ MACB_BIT(ISR_RLE)))
macb_tx(bp);
/*