Basically it does a timeout on lost interrupts, starting the operation
again and logging and error message on the console.
additionally fixes some of the (newer ending) while loops
(that made it work with two IDE disks !)
* Novell probe changed to be invasive because of too many complaints
* about some clone boards not being reset properly and thus not
* found on a warmboot. Yuck.
*
* Revision 2.10 1993/10/23 04:07:12 davidg
* increment output errors if the device times out (done via watchdog)
*
* Revision 2.9 1993/10/23 04:01:45 davidg
* increment input error counter if a packet with a bad length is
* detected.
*
* Revision 2.8 1993/10/15 10:59:56 davidg
* increase maximum time to wait for transmit DMA to complete to 120us.
* call ed_reset() if the time limit is reached instead of trying
* to abort the remote DMA.
*
* Revision 2.7 1993/10/15 10:49:10 davidg
* minor change to way the mbuf pointer temp variable is assigned in
* ed_start (slightly improves code readability)
*
* Revision 2.6 93/10/02 01:12:20 davidg
* use ETHER_ADDR_LEN in NE probe rather than '6'.
* patch from vak@zebub.msk.su (Serge V.Vakulenko) to work around
* a hardware bug in cheap WD clone boards where the PROM checksum
* byte is always zero
*
* Revision 2.4 93/09/29 21:24:30 davidg
* Added software NIC reset in NE probe to work around a problem
* with some NE boards where the 8390 doesn't reset properly on
* power-up. Remove initialization of IMR/ISR in the NE probe
* because this is inherent in the reset.
*
* Revision 2.3 93/09/29 15:10:16 davidg
* credit Charles Hannum
*
* Revision 2.2 93/09/29 13:23:25 davidg
* added no multi-buffer override for 3c503
*
* Revision 2.1 93/09/29 12:32:12 davidg
* changed multi-buffer count for 16bit 3c503's from 5 to 2 after
* noticing that the transmitter becomes idle because of so many
* packets to load.
*
* Revision 2.0 93/09/29 00:00:19 davidg
* many changes, rewrites, additions, etc. Now supports the
* NE1000, NE2000, WD8003, WD8013, 3C503, 16bit 3C503, and
* a variety of similar clones. 16bit 3c503 now does multi
* transmit buffers. Nearly every part of the driver has
* changed in some way since rev 1.30.
1) fixed 3c503 lock-up if the thinwire cable was disconnected at boot time
2) 8013EBT boards now work (quite well!) in 16bit/16k mode
3) ED_NO_DOUBLE_BUFFERING flag now works
4) slightly higer performance (about 3%) with 16bit WD/SMC boards
5) support for WD8013WC (10BaseT) boards
Additionally, the probe code has been reorganized to be much cleaner. This
revision of the driver is 1.25. The release notes have been updated as well.
(1) added support for ed1 in both generic kernels at:
device ed1 at isa? port 0x250 net irq 9 iomem 0xd8000 vector edintr
(2) brought if_ed.c up to DG's 1.19 rev.
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