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authorStephen Hemminger2010-11-01 05:04:52 +0100
committerStephen Hemminger2010-11-01 14:54:47 +0100
commit0980f2e8144ea0021a09be41176b736d76ca3db7 (patch)
treef75eac39d01072506ef3ceba0de720a77187fe90 /drivers/staging/bcm/InterfaceInit.c
parentbeceem: remove dead code (diff)
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beceem: reserve one queue for bit-bucket
This preserves the semantics of the original driver (unclassified packets are dropped), but does it in a clean way; and fixes crash when packet is sent to offline device. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/staging/bcm/InterfaceInit.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/staging/bcm/InterfaceInit.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/staging/bcm/InterfaceInit.c b/drivers/staging/bcm/InterfaceInit.c
index dddf34bb7c8b..801ba65e9785 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/bcm/InterfaceInit.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/bcm/InterfaceInit.c
@@ -188,7 +188,8 @@ usbbcm_device_probe(struct usb_interface *intf, const struct usb_device_id *id)
PS_INTERFACE_ADAPTER psIntfAdapter;
struct net_device *ndev;
- ndev = alloc_etherdev_mq(sizeof(MINI_ADAPTER), NO_OF_QUEUES);
+ /* Reserve one extra queue for the bit-bucket */
+ ndev = alloc_etherdev_mq(sizeof(MINI_ADAPTER), NO_OF_QUEUES+1);
if(ndev == NULL) {
dev_err(&udev->dev, DRV_NAME ": no memory for device\n");
return -ENOMEM;