Re: eth0: NULL pointer encountered in RX ring, skipping

From: Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Date: Fri Jan 25 2002 - 17:59:55 EST

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Well, the code says "this should never happen" ;-)

But anyway, it is probably a temporary memory allocation failure. The
code handles this case.

Jeff

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