Re: Oops with 3c59x module (3com 3c595 NIC)

From: Henning P. Schmiedehausen (hps@intermeta.de)
Date: Sun Dec 08 2002 - 07:30:32 EST

Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> writes:

>pci-skeleton.c and several of Don's drivers actually do do something
>else on TxUnderrun, twiddle DMA burst settings:

> if ((intr_status & TxUnderrun)
> && (np->tx_config & TxThresholdField) !=
>TxThresholdField) {
> long ioaddr = dev->base_addr;
> np->tx_config += TxThresholdInc;
> writel(np->tx_config, ioaddr + TxMode);
> np->stats.tx_fifo_errors++;
> }

>I wonder how feasible it is to do that on 3c59x hardware?

I wonder whether this is not a layer violation. Shouldn't there be
some sort of API call to do this?

        Regards
                Henning 

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