The attached patch observes the stir4200 fifo size and will clear the fifo, if
the size is increasing, while it should be transmitting bytes

From: Olaf Hartmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

---
 drivers/net/irda/stir4200.c |   10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Index: net-2.6/drivers/net/irda/stir4200.c
===================================================================
--- net-2.6.orig/drivers/net/irda/stir4200.c    2007-11-25 05:53:43.000000000 
+0100
+++ net-2.6/drivers/net/irda/stir4200.c 2007-11-26 02:16:12.000000000 +0100
@@ -142,9 +142,6 @@
 };
 
 enum StirFifoCtlMask {
-       FIFOCTL_EOF = 0x80,
-       FIFOCTL_UNDER = 0x40,
-       FIFOCTL_OVER = 0x20,
        FIFOCTL_DIR = 0x10,
        FIFOCTL_CLR = 0x08,
        FIFOCTL_EMPTY = 0x04,
@@ -594,9 +591,10 @@
 {
        int err;
        unsigned long count, status;
+       unsigned long prev_count = 0x1fff;
 
        /* Read FIFO status and count */
-       for(;;) {
+       for (;; prev_count = count) {
                err = read_reg(stir, REG_FIFOCTL, stir->fifo_status, 
                                   FIFO_REGS_SIZE);
                if (unlikely(err != FIFO_REGS_SIZE)) {
@@ -629,6 +627,10 @@
                if (space >= 0 && STIR_FIFO_SIZE - 4 > space + count)
                        return 0;
 
+               /* queue confused */
+               if (prev_count < count)
+                       break;
+
                /* estimate transfer time for remaining chars */
                msleep((count * 8000) / stir->speed);
        }

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