Re: pppoe patch in 2.4.7 results - still problem

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>]

"David S. Miller" wrote:
> Andrew Friedley writes:
>  > In response to the pppoe patch to try to fix panics with pppoe and smp:
>  > When running napster/napigator from a windows machine on my LAN, the router
>  > running 2.4.7 still panics.  It has not been long enough to tell if the
>  > "random" panics have been fixed for sure, but so far, so good - 1 day, 4
>  > hour uptime right now.  Here is a paste of a napster-induced panic with
>  > kernel 2.4.7 followed by the ksymoops output.

> This looks like perhaps a specific problem with the 8139too
> patches to support single-copy checksumming.  I could be wrong,
> but it looks nothing like the pppoe OOPS traces.

via-rhine is the only user of skb_copy_and_csum_dev at present; but the
point still stands.  (I am holding off on that 8139too patch, for just a
bit, to stabilize the driver WRT bugs)

	Jeff


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