Messages in this thread | | | From | kuznet@ms2 ... | Subject | Re: Softnet/eepro100 driver conversion bug in 2.3.43pre8? | Date | Sun, 13 Feb 2000 21:32:27 +0300 (MSK) |
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Hello!
> That _sounds_ reasonably, I agree, but eepro100 gets tx timeouts very > frequently if the access to "status" is not atomic.
Could you try to answer another, simpler, question? Namely, why is the question raised now?
Softnet did not introduce _anything_ new to this area. Even 2.3.15 did not this. If eepro100 fails now, it always (including 2.2) failed _exactly_ with the same frequency.
Alexey
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