On 11/21/2012 04:25 PM, Michael Pellegrini wrote:
> Michael Pellegrini <mikep86 <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> This driver is working very well so far.  ifconfig shows that I am sending and
>> receiving CAN messages successfully.  This is confirmed externally by the CAN
>> Monitor system.
>>
>> I will start a more intensive test now and report the results.
> 
> I shouldn't have spoken so soon.  Running my application on the PCH-System
> caused the original problem within minutes.  Message transmission stopped
> and and my application started printing the error "No buffer space available".
> The only way to recover was to reset the interface.

Can you try this patch (ontop of Wolfgang's)?

Marc

diff --git a/drivers/net/can/c_can/c_can.c b/drivers/net/can/c_can/c_can.c
index 5233b8f..2849224 100644
--- a/drivers/net/can/c_can/c_can.c
+++ b/drivers/net/can/c_can/c_can.c
@@ -543,8 +543,6 @@ static netdev_tx_t c_can_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,

        msg_obj_no = get_tx_next_msg_obj(priv);

-       /* prepare message object for transmission */
-       c_can_write_msg_object(dev, 0, frame, msg_obj_no);
        can_put_echo_skb(skb, dev, msg_obj_no - C_CAN_MSG_OBJ_TX_FIRST);

        /*
@@ -556,6 +554,9 @@ static netdev_tx_t c_can_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
                        (priv->tx_next & C_CAN_NEXT_MSG_OBJ_MASK) == 0)
                netif_stop_queue(dev);

+       /* prepare message object for transmission */
+       c_can_write_msg_object(dev, 0, frame, msg_obj_no);
+
        return NETDEV_TX_OK;
 }



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