Re: [Skyeye-developer] An idea about the message “skyeye: write data to nic is bigger than 256”

[Yonghao Wang]

Hello,

Just be curiosity. What was the reason being error of write data
greater than 256 bytes? Can you explain a little bit about rationale
behind that?

Many thanks

faif

On 7/2/06, Yao Qi <duewayqi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/1/06, Chi HUANG <hcllh0214 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,everybody.
> >
> > I met the message "skyeye: write data to nic is bigger than 256" during
> > mounting a NFS directory as the root file system. I analysed the Skyeye
> > source code and tried to find out the reason. Now I think it comes from the
> > function "at91_io_write_byte" in the file skyeye_mach_at91.c and after
> > reading the code, I felt some relevant codes does not any actual work and
> > commented them. It is OK now. The message disappears and my Skyeye still
> > works. The following is the relevant codes:
> >
> > "
> > if (data>256) {
> >            fprintf(stderr,"skyeye: write data to nic is bigger than 256\n");
> >                  SKYEYE_OUTREGS(stderr);
> >                 }
> > "
> >
> >
> Thanks for your chasing the bug!
>
> Why do not you code a patch against this problem, and send this patch
> to this list?   Chen Yu could pick this patch up and apply it to cvs
> repository to fix this problem.
>
>
> --
> Yao Qi
>
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