Re: [PATCH v3] ibm_newemac: Fixes kernel crashes when speed of cable connected changes

2008-07-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
Stefan Roese wrote: From: Sathya Narayanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] The descriptor pointers were not initialized to NIL values, so it was poiniting to some random addresses which was completely invalid. This fix takes care of initializing the descriptor to NIL values and clearing the valid descriptors

[PATCH v3] ibm_newemac: Fixes kernel crashes when speed of cable connected changes

2008-07-01 Thread Stefan Roese
From: Sathya Narayanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] The descriptor pointers were not initialized to NIL values, so it was poiniting to some random addresses which was completely invalid. This fix takes care of initializing the descriptor to NIL values and clearing the valid descriptors on clean ring