Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 28 Jul 2004 14:29:25 +0200 | | From | Daniele Venzano <> | | Subject | Re: SiS900: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping |
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On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 12:21:58PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > The OOM problem is completely unrelated to the network, therefore no > reset should ever be considered for this condition. > > The driver should properly handle the 'NULL in rx ring' condition as a > normal occurence. It should skip to the next available skb in the ring. > If no skbs are remain, it should drop the skb. > > See natsemi.c for additional -- and optional -- OOM handling techniques. > > Jeff
I will check this for the sis900 driver.
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