On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 06:56:54PM +0100, Erik Mouw wrote:
> Changes in other networking paths uncovered a bug in the xircom_cb
> driver which made the kernel spew lots of the following error messages:
> 
>   BUG eth1 code -5 qlen 0
> 
> It turned out that the driver returned -EIO when there was no
> descriptor available for sending packets. It should return
> NETDEV_TX_BUSY instead. This was discussed on the netdev list before,
> see http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/84603 .
> 
> Signed-off-by: Erik Mouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Forgot to tell: the patch is against 2.6.24 but should apply cleanly to
the latest git kernel. The xircom_cb driver appears to be orphaned so
I've send the patch to you.


Erik

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