Re: [PATCH] ipw2200: Fix NETDEV_TX_BUSY erroneous returned

[Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>]

On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 12:09:54 +0800
Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com> wrote:

> 
> This patch fixes the warning below warning for the ipw2200 driver.
> 
>   NETDEV_TX_BUSY returned; driver should report queue full via
>   ieee_device->is_queue_full.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hong Liu <hong.liu@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
> --
> 
> diff -urp linux.orig/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2200.c linux/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2200.c
> --- linux.orig/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2200.c	2005-10-21 05:35:24.000000000 +0800
> +++ linux/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2200.c	2005-10-25 13:22:38.000000000
> +0800
> @@ -9649,11 +9649,6 @@ static inline int ipw_tx_skb(struct ipw_
>  	u16 remaining_bytes;
>  	int fc;
>  
> -	/* If there isn't room in the queue, we return busy and let the
> -	 * network stack requeue the packet for us */
> -	if (ipw_queue_space(q) < q->high_mark)
> -		return NETDEV_TX_BUSY;
> -
>  	switch (priv->ieee->iw_mode) {
>  	case IW_MODE_ADHOC:
>  		hdr_len = IEEE80211_3ADDR_LEN;
> @@ -9871,7 +9866,7 @@ static int ipw_net_hard_start_xmit(struc
>  
>        fail_unlock:
>  	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&priv->lock, flags);
> -	return 1;
> +	return -1;

That's not right... -1 is NETDEV_TX_LOCKED, which is not what you want.
Also, please use NETDEV_TX_ values for return values from transmit routine.

You should post this to netdev@vger.kernel.org and ipw2100-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
for discussion there.
-- 
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
OSDL http://developer.osdl.org/~shemminger