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ibm_newemac: Fixes kernel crashes when speed of cable connected changes
authorSathya Narayanan <sathyan@teamf1.com>
Tue, 1 Jul 2008 08:58:05 +0000 (10:58 +0200)
committerJeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Fri, 4 Jul 2008 12:17:18 +0000 (08:17 -0400)
commit654f78717c09b9f1efae0598da9025f3409e6224
treef596086e32685b9c1f885b3e8edddf4b72d3b406
parent4e65fdc7628faa8019802e530dd67d941a808ac5
ibm_newemac: Fixes kernel crashes when speed of cable connected changes

The descriptor pointers were not initialized to NIL values, so it was
poiniting to some random addresses which was completely invalid. This
fix takes care of initializing the descriptor to NIL values and clearing
the valid descriptors on clean ring operation.

Signed-off-by: Sathya Narayanan <sathyan@teamf1.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c