From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kasper Sandberg Subject: Re: 8169 Intermittent ifup Failure Issue With RTL8102E Chipset in Intel's New D945GCLF Atom Board (Not the Initial Modprobe Crash, Another Problem) Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:03:18 +0200 Message-ID: <1216220598.10312.12.camel@localhost> References: <4861800B.90703@nscus.com> <48777BC3.6090108@dell.com> <1216052460.23392.14.camel@localhost> <200807142152.26163.eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> <487BB065.3020709@dell.com> <1216068344.23392.19.camel@localhost> <487BBE77.7050702@dell.com> <20080715185646.GA27023@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Mario Limonciello , Rolf Eike Beer , Marcus Sundberg , Michael Grollman , netdev@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org To: Francois Romieu Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20080715185646.GA27023@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Sender: linux-pci-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 20:56 +0200, Francois Romieu wrote: > Mario Limonciello : > [...] > > If I was to guess (I didn't actually work out which one yours identifies > > as), most likely your NIC isn't caught in my check for MAC_VER_13 or > > MAC_VER_16, but Francois's patch has: > > +1 > > (actually this change was contributed by Marcus Sundberg: see > the Signed-off-by and/or the patch named > 0003-r8169-avoid-thrashing-PCI-conf-space-above-RTL_GIGA.patch) > > I doubt that it will break anybody's 8101 (resp. 8102) but I would > welcome a report from a 8101/8102 owner before sending it upstream. Yeah, this change will definetly be good news to lots of realtek pci express owners, googling for this issue myself i found that alot of people are having it, and finding it difficult/annoying to grab 8168 from realteks site, not to mention often compatibility issues, so this is a very welcome fix :D > > Sorry for disturbing linux-pci. >