Re: 2.6.12 breaks 8139cp

Nick Warne
2005-06-26T13:47:03Z

> It seems that whatever is causing the bug i'm seeing was a change that
> involved the network driver/interrupt subsystem and not actually the
> 8139too driver, this was done at around 2.6.3-2.6.4. A NAPI patch that
> was introduced at that time basically reverted the interrupt function
> and removed the poll functions from the driver (via not enabling napi in
> Kconfig).

Ummm. I was involved in this. Here is the 'final' post after Mr Hirofumi
found the cause of my issues:

http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0402.3/1709.html

But I looked at what he said and found the real problem on my system (after
all that):

http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0403.1/1537.html

Nick
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