[vortex] problems with 3c905b

[Andrew Morton]

Gregory Goddard wrote:
> 
> I'm having problems with the 3c90x driver under SuSE 7.1.

What are the problems?

> Logs follow below. Most significant is the following error:
> 
>         eth0: vortex_error(), status=0xe081
>         eth0: vortex_error(), status=0xe481
>         eth0: vortex_error(), status=0x8481
>
>         (this behavior is repeating every minute or so...)

I think this is OK.  Periodically the NIC generates an interrupt
which tells the driver to read the statistics counters before they
overflow.  We handle this in vortex_error().  So it's not really
an error at all.

If you're not observing any other problems then all is well.