Re: SiS900: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping

[Daniele Venzano]

On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 12:21:58PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> The OOM problem is completely unrelated to the network, therefore no 
> reset should ever be considered for this condition.
> 
> The driver should properly handle the 'NULL in rx ring' condition as a 
> normal occurence.  It should skip to the next available skb in the ring. 
>  If no skbs are remain, it should drop the skb.
> 
> See natsemi.c for additional -- and optional -- OOM handling techniques.
> 
> 	Jeff

I will check this for the sis900 driver.

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Daniele Venzano
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