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Re: RE: Trouble using lwIP (driver crash...)

> I don't see the point of calling PacketRxReady() from i82559_can_send().
> The point of "can_send()" is to determine of the device can accept any
> more packets *to transmit* - received packets should not be part of that
> calculation.

There is a comment in the code from Hugo. Sending a packet can
potentially loose a receive interrupt. So it tries a receiver after
doing the send just to recover from the lost interrupt.

        Andrew

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