Re: Linux 2.6.21

Stephen Clark
2007-04-26T19:53:44Z

Francois Romieu wrote:

>Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> :
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>>Francois Romieu wrote:
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>>>Pointer for the rtl8139 regression please ?
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>>I'm guessing it's this one:
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>>> Subject : boot failure: rtl8139: exception in interrupt routine
>>> References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/31/160
>>> Submitter : Stephen Clark <Stephen.Clark@seclark.us>
>>> Status : unknown
>>>
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>>The poster says rtl8139, but doesn't provide more info. His lspci says
>>"RTL8169SC", which sounds more like r8169 to me.
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>Yes, thanks.
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>The r8169 driver has been added a few bugfixes between 2.6.21-rc5 and now.
>Some are related to latent, timing changes induced bugs.
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>Stephen, would you mind testing 2.6.21 and open a PR at bugzilla.kernel.org
>if the bug does not go away ?
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>Bugzilla e-mails end directly in my mailbox. l-k traffic can be temporarily
>unnoticed (especially on saturday night).
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Sure I'll give it a try in the next couple of days.

Steve

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