Re: Linux-2.6.21 hangs during post boot initialization phase

[Peter Williams]

Neil Horman wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 12:28:28AM +1000, Peter Williams wrote:
> > Neil Horman wrote:
> > > On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 04:05:11PM +1000, Peter Williams wrote:
>
> Damn, This is what happens when I try to do things too quickly.  I missed one
> spot in my last patch where I replaced skb with rx_skb.  Its not critical, but
> it should improve sis900 performance by quite a bit.  This applies on top of the
> last two patches.  Sorry about that.
>
> Thanks & Regards
> Neil
>
> Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
>  sis900.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
>  
> diff --git a/drivers/net/sis900.c b/drivers/net/sis900.c
> index 7e44939..db59dce 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/sis900.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/sis900.c
> @@ -1790,7 +1790,7 @@ static int sis900_rx(struct net_device *net_dev)
>  			/* give the socket buffer to upper layers */
>  			rx_skb = sis_priv->rx_skbuff[entry];
>  			skb_put(rx_skb, rx_size);
> -			skb->protocol = eth_type_trans(rx_skb, net_dev);
> +			rx_skb->protocol = eth_type_trans(rx_skb, net_dev);
>  			netif_rx(rx_skb);
>  
>  			/* some network statistics */

My system also boots OK after I add this patch.  Can't tell whether it's 
improved the performance or not.

Peter
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