Re: 2.4.21-pre4: tg3 driver problems with shared interrupts

[Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com>]

On Sun, 02 Feb 2003 11:49:12 -0500
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:

> Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> > I found out within minutes that this setup does not survive if you let the
> > Broadcom cards share interrupts with anything else. It works ok now like
> > this (eth2 is tg3):
> 
> [...]
> > But horribly failed in such a setup:
> 
> [...]
> > I cannot even produce a "cat /proc/interrupts" for this because I am not fast
> > enough at login (the network at eth2 is heavy loaded). I sometimes read about
> > problems here with tg3-drivers, and I just wanted to point you to the shared
> > case, maybe it has to do with this special case rather than with the drivers
> > internals itself.
> > (PS: its not the ide2-3, I checked that out)
> 
> 
> 
> hmmm.  I've attached the latest tg3, version 1.4, which I just sent off 
> to Marcelo.  It includes some fixes that may affect your 5701.

Sorry, putting it into pre4 results in:

gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-pre4-patch/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686   -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -DKBUILD_BASENAME=tg3  -c -o tg3.o tg3.c
tg3.c:140: `PCI_DEVICE_ID_TIGON3_5704S' undeclared here (not in a function)
tg3.c:140: initializer element is not constant
tg3.c:140: (near initialization for `tg3_pci_tbl[8].device')
tg3.c:141: initializer element is not constant
tg3.c:141: (near initialization for `tg3_pci_tbl[8]')
tg3.c:142: `PCI_DEVICE_ID_TIGON3_5702A3' undeclared here (not in a function)
tg3.c:142: initializer element is not constant
tg3.c:142: (near initialization for `tg3_pci_tbl[9].device')
tg3.c:143: initializer element is not constant
tg3.c:143: (near initialization for `tg3_pci_tbl[9]')
tg3.c:144: `PCI_DEVICE_ID_TIGON3_5703A3' undeclared here (not in a function)
tg3.c:144: initializer element is not constant
tg3.c:144: (near initialization for `tg3_pci_tbl[10].device')
tg3.c:145: initializer element is not constant
tg3.c:145: (near initialization for `tg3_pci_tbl[10]')
tg3.c:147: initializer element is not constant
tg3.c:147: (near initialization for `tg3_pci_tbl[11]')
tg3.c:149: initializer element is not constant
tg3.c:149: (near initialization for `tg3_pci_tbl[12]')
tg3.c:151: initializer element is not constant
tg3.c:151: (near initialization for `tg3_pci_tbl[13]')
tg3.c:152: initializer element is not constant
tg3.c:152: (near initialization for `tg3_pci_tbl[14]')
make[3]: *** [tg3.o] Error 1

Shall I patch it, or do you?

-- 
Regards,
Stephan