On Fri, 2012-05-11 at 08:45 +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > The code seems to want to look at the last byte where the HW puts some > information. Since the skb->data area is never seen by the HW I guess > it > does not work as expected. We pass the page address to the HW so I > *think* in order to get to the last byte where the information might > be > one should use the page buffer and take a look. > This is of course not more than just compile tested. > > Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]> > --- > * Alexander Duyck | 2012-05-10 13:25:50 [-0700]: > > >I'm fairly certain you don't need to use kmap_atomic on the Rx page > >since the way it is allocated it cannot be mapped into high memory. > You > >should be able to just use page_address to get the virtual address > for > >the page. > > Right, no highmem here. This is the updated version. > > drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c | 6 +++++- > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
I have dropped the previous version and added this patch to the queue. Thanks Sebastian.
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