Re: Linux 2.6.27-rc5

Francois Romieu
2008-09-01T07:12:27Z

(thanks for the forward Zid)

Zid Null <zidsoft@gmail.com> :
> 2008/9/1 J.A. Magallón <jamagallon@ono.com>
> > On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:26:45 -0700 (PDT), Linus Torvalds <
> > torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
[...]
> > > Another week (my weeks do seem to be eight days, don't they? Very odd),
> > > another -rc.
[...]
> > r8169 is not working on an Aspire One. It looked like working some time,
> > but now it has begun to say:
> >
> > Sep 1 01:09:35 one klogd: r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded
> > Sep 1 01:09:35 one klogd: r8169 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level,
> > low) -> IRQ 17
> > Sep 1 01:09:35 one klogd: r8169 0000:02:00.0: cache line size of 32 is not
> > supported
> > Sep 1 01:09:35 one klogd: r8169 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
> > Sep 1 01:09:35 one klogd: r8169: probe of 0000:02:00.0 failed with error
> > -22
> >
> > Any ideas ? Any more info needed ?
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > one:/var/log# lspci -vv -s 02:00.0
> > 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E PCI
> > Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev ff) (prog-if ff)
> > !!! Unknown header type 7f
> > Kernel modules: r8169

Send a lspci -vvx but I guess that it is all 'ff' when the problem happens.

Either it is reliably fixed with patches #0001 ... #0006 at
http://userweb.kernel.org/~romieu/r8169/2.6.27-rc3/20080818/
or something broke in the PCI configuration space.

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Ueimor