Re: [2.4 PATCH] pcnet32.c - tx underflow error

[Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>]

On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Alan Cox wrote:

> > This patch fixes a tx underflow error for 79c973 chip.  It essentially delay
> > the transmission until the whole packet is received into the on-chip sdram.
> >
> > The patch is already accepted by Marcelo for the 2.4 tree, I think.
>
> Which slows the stuff down for people with real computers. Please apply
> some kind of heuristic to this - eg switch to delaying if you exceed
> 50 failures in a 60 second period.

I haven't applied it yet.

I'll let it come to me throught Jeff Garzik after the issues are resolved.