From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753914AbYH0ULi (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:11:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751668AbYH0UL3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:11:29 -0400 Received: from electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com ([213.41.134.224]:52367 "EHLO electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751118AbYH0UL3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:11:29 -0400 Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:11:11 +0200 From: Francois Romieu To: Pascal Terjan Cc: Marcus Sundberg , linux-kernel , stable@kernel.org Subject: Re: r8169 regression in 2.6.26.3 vs 2.6.26.2 Message-ID: <20080827201111.GA29569@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> References: <1219828800.30098.7.camel@plop> <48B52E8C.40605@ingate.com> <1219833655.30098.9.camel@plop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1219833655.30098.9.camel@plop> X-Organisation: Land of Sunshine Inc. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Pascal Terjan : > Le mercredi 27 ao?t 2008 ? 12:38 +0200, Marcus Sundberg a ?crit : > > Pascal Terjan wrote: > > > Since updating to 2.6.26.3, networking no longer works on Acer Aspire > > > One. > > > > > > PCI config is now always filled with ones. > > > > > > Reverting "r8169: avoid thrashing PCI conf space above > > > RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_06" makes it work again. > > > > > > The device is 10ec:8136 [...] > > How does the kernel identify your chipset upon driver load? > > (grep for XID) > > eth0: RTL8169 at 0xe04ee000, 00:1e:68:a0:07:b5, XID 24a00000 IRQ 17 As far as I can read rtl8169_get_mac_version, this XID should not match any known device with 2.6.26.3 and thus fallback to RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_01 (assuming that rtl8169_init_phy runs after rtl8169_get_mac_version, what it appears to do so far). Yes / no / -ECOFFEE ? On a different topic, I would suggest to try patches #0001 ... #0006 at http://userweb.kernel.org/~romieu/r8169/2.6.27-rc3/20080818/ with your chipset. -- Ueimor