On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 19:30 -0500, Kristian Høgsberg wrote:

> The problem isn't packets that are too big, the problem is we can get
> unexpected / too many empty packets, which will then cause the DMA
> engine to move on to the next descriptor before the payload buffer has
> been completely filled. 

I was under the impression that for an empty packet, the descriptor
wouldn't fire at all.  Is that not correct?

-David

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