On 12 Mar 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> In article <20000312201041.W27942@thepuffingroup.com>,
> <willy@thepuffingroup.com> wrote:
> >
> >Using 2.3.51, 3c574_cb compiled into the kernel. IBM Thinkpad 600E.
> >pings are returned after an interval of a few seconds and my dmesg is
> >filled with alerts:
> >
> >NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
>
> You're not seeing the interrupts from the network card for some reason.
> The timeout makes it limp along, but not really work.
3c574_cs needs some SoftNet fixups, it still calls netif_stop_queue()
from the interrupt handler and calls netif_start_queue() too many times
[harmless but ugly].
I will send you a patch this week if noone else beats me to it.
Jeff
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