From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265676AbUE1Bap (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 May 2004 21:30:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265679AbUE1Bap (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 May 2004 21:30:45 -0400 Received: from dsl-3-146.novia.net ([216.40.3.146]:32914 "EHLO mail.optimumdata.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265676AbUE1Bam (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 May 2004 21:30:42 -0400 Message-ID: <40B69641.2080001@tux.obix.com> Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 20:30:41 -0500 From: Phil Brutsche User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (Windows/20040502) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: akpm@osdl.org CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Problems with 3c59x in 2.6.7-rc1-bk* Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org With a 3c905C NIC, I get a kernel panic & hard lock while trying to bring up the interface at boot. After reverting the following patch (introduced in 2.6.6-bk1) there are no more kernel panics. 2.6.6 and earlier work fine with this card. diff -Nru a/drivers/net/3c59x.c b/drivers/net/3c59x.c --- a/drivers/net/3c59x.c 2004-03-13 22:54:58 -08:00 +++ b/drivers/net/3c59x.c 2004-05-10 04:25:39 -07:00 @@ -520,7 +520,7 @@ {"3c905B-FX Cyclone 100baseFx", PCI_USES_IO|PCI_USES_MASTER, IS_CYCLONE|HAS_HWCKSM, 128, }, {"3c905C Tornado", - PCI_USES_IO|PCI_USES_MASTER, IS_TORNADO|HAS_NWAY|HAS_HWCKSM, 128, }, + PCI_USES_IO|PCI_USES_MASTER, IS_TORNADO|HAS_NWAY|HAS_HWCKSM|EXTRA_PREAMBLE, 128, }, {"3c980 Cyclone", PCI_USES_IO|PCI_USES_MASTER, IS_CYCLONE|HAS_HWCKSM, 128, }, {"3c980C Python-T", The strange part? The patch description shows that it tries to fix 100baseTX-FD problems with 3c905C cards... which it precisely what works fine here WITHOUT the patch. Yell if anyone needs the text of the panic. (Andrew, this is directed at you because the changelog shows the patch came to Linus from you via -mm) -- Phil Brutsche phil@tux.obix.com