Re: Debian kernel 2.6.38-5

Geert Uytterhoeven
2011-05-09T07:16:41Z

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 01:14, Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
> On Sun, 8 May 2011, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
>> PS 2.6.28 did not boot: kernel too old. When was TLS introduced? I'll try to
>> apply the patch you mentioned in your other message.
>
> I sometimes test network cards with busybox. It can be built without
> linking in glibc and doesn't need TLS.
>
>
>> [  130.870000] eth0: trigger_send() called with the transmitter busy.
>> [  132.240000] ------------[ cut here ]------------
>> [  132.240000] WARNING: at net/sched/sch_generic.c:256 dev_watchdog+0x1ac/0x1cc()
>> [  132.250000] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0 (): transmit queue 0 timed out
>
> Looks a lot like this problem:
>
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/27774/

Yeah, that's a very likely culprit. Thx!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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