From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752480AbVHGSCO (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Aug 2005 14:02:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752481AbVHGSCO (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Aug 2005 14:02:14 -0400 Received: from smtp-vbr8.xs4all.nl ([194.109.24.28]:60420 "EHLO smtp-vbr8.xs4all.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752480AbVHGSCO (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Aug 2005 14:02:14 -0400 Message-ID: <42F64C9F.602@xs4all.nl> Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 20:02:07 +0200 From: Udo van den Heuvel User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: VIA Rhine ethernet driver bug (reprise) X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 OpenPGP: id=8300CC02 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello, In january of this year I mentioned a problem with the Linux kernel driver for VIA Rhine ethernet chips. (see http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/1/15/47) In the mean time this bug was reproduced quite a number of times on my Fedora Core 3 (then)/4 (now) box (a VIA CL6000). An alternative driver by VIA was used (with kernel 2.6.1x, http://www.viaarena.com/downloads/Source/rhinefet.tgz); this VIA driver did not have the Oversized ethernet frame bug but consumes quite a lot of CPU when transfering a steady stream of a few 1000 KB/S, so it is no good solution. Since the ethernet connection goes down due to this bug I think I can mark the bug as critical. The bug is still present in 2.6.12. The maintainer of the driver cannot fix the bug. Who can? Please post here and/or email me with your thoughts about a solution, ways of fixing the bug. Would a small reward help? Kind regards, Udo