From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What is this: skge Ram read/write data parity error
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 10:12:39 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060307101239.5de16cce@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 440DA96B.5010604@isotton.com
On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 16:40:27 +0100
Aaron Isotton <aaron@isotton.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Since some time I'm getting the following log entries under 2.6.15:
>
> Mar 7 05:42:48 tiger kernel: skge Ram write data parity error
> Mar 7 05:42:48 tiger kernel: skge Ram read data parity error
>
> Does this mean my hardware is faulty? The error message seems to imply
> that, but since I am not experiencing any problems and a comment in
> skge.c says
>
> /* Parity errors seem to happen when Genesis is connected to a switch
> * with no other ports present. Heartbeat error??
> */
>
> talking about some other sort of parity error though ("mac parity") I'm
> not sure any more. Can anybody enlighten me?
Which exact hardware is that, look for the skge line in the kernel log (dmesg)?
I am not a hardware wizard, but I wrote that comment. My guess is that it shows
up when the hardware decides to clock in some data that isn't really a packet
(line noise, etc). Both skge and sk98lin just clear the error and keep going.
Does it happen a lot or just once?
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2006-03-07 15:40 What is this: skge Ram read/write data parity error Aaron Isotton
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