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authorUwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>2013-07-30 11:29:40 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2013-07-30 16:05:04 -0700
commita264b981f2c76e281ef27e7232774bf6c54ec865 (patch)
tree1875a691e59369b82ecad4dad563302aadbc1662 /drivers/net
parenta0db856a95a29efb1c23db55c02d9f0ff4f0db48 (diff)
downloadlinux-a264b981f2c76e281ef27e7232774bf6c54ec865.tar.gz
net/fec: Don't let ndo_start_xmit return NETDEV_TX_BUSY without link
Don't test for having link and let hardware deal with this situation.

Without this patch I see a machine running an -rt patched Linux being
stuck in sch_direct_xmit when it looses link while there is still a
packet to be sent. In this case the fec_enet_start_xmit routine returned
NETDEV_TX_BUSY which makes the network stack reschedule the packet and
so sch_direct_xmit calls fec_enet_start_xmit again.
I failed to reproduce a complete hang without -rt, but I think the
problem exists there, too.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c5
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c
index 0dda45481d16..77ea0db0bbfc 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fec_main.c
@@ -294,11 +294,6 @@ fec_enet_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *ndev)
 	unsigned short	status;
 	unsigned int index;
 
-	if (!fep->link) {
-		/* Link is down or auto-negotiation is in progress. */
-		return NETDEV_TX_BUSY;
-	}
-
 	/* Fill in a Tx ring entry */
 	bdp = fep->cur_tx;