Re: atl1 transmit timeout Was: Re: oops/warning report for the week of November 26, 2008

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>]

Jay Cliburn wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 10:50:44 -0800
> Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> 
>> => select count(version), version from oopses where
>> guilty='dev_watchdog(atl1)' group by version order by version desc;
>> count |     version -------+-----------------
>>     93 | 2.6.27.5
>>      6 | 2.6.27.4
>>      1 | 2.6.27.3
>>      1 | 2.6.27.2
>>      1 | 2.6.27-rc9
>>      1 | 2.6.27-rc7-git1
>>      1 | 2.6.27-rc7
>>      1 | 2.6.27-rc6
>>      6 | 2.6.27-rc3
>>      7 | 2.6.27
>>      4 | 2.6.26.6
>> (11 rows)
> 
> Wow.  4 hits in 2.6.26, then 118 in 2.6.27.
> 
> A history of changes between 2.6.26 and 2.6.27.5 shows a mere six
> changes to the driver.

one thing to note is that for the .26 kernel, there was not very good data collection of this issue yet.
(Although.. more than 4% I would say; Fedora had the patches to report the driver info backported for quite some time)