Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Peter Chubb <> | Date | Fri, 19 Sep 2003 15:01:02 +1000 | Subject | Re: NS83820 2.6.0-test5 driver seems unstable on IA64 |
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On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 09:38:47PM -0700, Grant Grundler wrote: > On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 02:16:29PM +1000, Peter Chubb wrote: >> The >> obvious approach of realigning the SKB by 2 bytes seems not to >> work.
> Could you be more detailed about the "obvious approach"? ie show > the diff of what you changed.
It doesn't work as in no error messages, no pings, no interrupts to the driver. And the kernel hangs after a short while.
This is what I changed:
===== drivers/net/ns83820.c 1.19 vs edited ===== --- 1.19/drivers/net/ns83820.c Thu Jun 5 13:50:00 2003 +++ edited/drivers/net/ns83820.c Fri Sep 19 13:49:23 2003 @@ -567,7 +567,7 @@ res = (long)skb->tail & 0xf; res = 0x10 - res; res &= 0xf; - skb_reserve(skb, res); + skb_reserve(skb, res+2); skb->dev = &dev->net_dev; if (gfp != GFP_ATOMIC)
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