This patch is a simplified version of the original patch from James Courtier-Dutton.
>From: James Courtier-Dutton
>Subject: [PATCH] Fix b44 RX FIFO overflow recovery.
>Date: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 - 1:11 pm
>
>This patch improves the recovery after a RX FIFO overflow on the b44
>Ethernet NIC.
>Before it would do a complete chip reset, resulting is loss of link
>for a few seconds.
>This patch improves this to do recovery in about 20ms without loss of link.
>
>Signed off by: James@superbug.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
b44_tx(bp);
/* spin_unlock(&bp->tx_lock); */
}
+ if (bp->istat & ISTAT_RFO) { /* fast recovery, in ~20msec */
+ bp->istat &= ~ISTAT_RFO;
+ b44_disable_ints(bp);
+ ssb_device_enable(bp->sdev, 0); /* resets ISTAT_RFO */
+ b44_init_rings(bp);
+ b44_init_hw(bp, B44_FULL_RESET_SKIP_PHY);
+ netif_wake_queue(bp->dev);
+ }
+
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bp->lock, flags);
work_done = 0;