From: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>

If the Rx buffer gets corrupted or the FIFO hangs in new interesting ways,
this code prevents the driver from looping in ksoftirqd context without
making any progress.
Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>