From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Hutchings Subject: Re: Bug#645308: tg3 broken for NetXtreme 5714S in squeeze 6.0.3 installer Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 19:37:16 +0000 Message-ID: <1321731436.2885.151.camel@deadeye> References: <20111018142056.GF29261@torres.zugschlus.de> <1319084914.23980.96.camel@deadeye> <20111021090046.GA13930@torres.zugschlus.de> <20111021090811.GA5993@torres.zugschlus.de> <1319199579.2918.42.camel@deadeye> <20111024212409.GA29764@mcarlson.broadcom.com> <1319500074.31243.47.camel@deadeye> <20111026002032.GA31575@mcarlson.broadcom.com> <1319614904.11727.17.camel@deadeye> <20111118195435.GA31807@mcarlson.broadcom.com> <20111119184536.GE4187@torres.zugschlus.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha512"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-rcmkbwIvzzoCyQbHKDEl" Cc: Matt Carlson , Michael Chan , netdev To: Marc Haber , 645308@bugs.debian.org Return-path: Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:58678 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752472Ab1KSThn (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Nov 2011 14:37:43 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20111119184536.GE4187@torres.zugschlus.de> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-rcmkbwIvzzoCyQbHKDEl Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2011-11-19 at 19:45 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 11:54:35AM -0800, Matt Carlson wrote: > > I think I misspoke earlier. The commit I mentioned above fixes a probl= em > > introduced in an earlier patch. (commit ID > > d2394e6bb1aa636f3bd142cb6f7845a4332514b5, entitled > > "tg3: Always turn on APE features in mac_mode reg") So the fact that > > 2.6.32-35 works and 2.6.32-36 doesn't means you applied the problematic > > patch that had the bug, but you didn't apply the above fix to correct i= t. >=20 > I can try a fixed kernel, but I don't understand the way Debian builds > its kernels. I can >=20 > (a) download a Debian kernel source package, apply > d2394e6bb1aa636f3bd142cb6f7845a4332514b5 and go the make; make install > way or > (b) wait for a kernel deb from Ben. >=20 > If (a) is expected to give reasonable results, I can do that. I'm not going to build a complete new package myself, as you can easily do that with the debian/bin/test-patches script in the source package. But I can provide you with a rebuilt tg3.ko so you can test just that change in the installer like you did previously. Ben. --=20 Ben Hutchings The world is coming to an end. Please log off. --=-rcmkbwIvzzoCyQbHKDEl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iQIVAwUATsgFbOe/yOyVhhEJAQrI+BAAhLk4vPtId4cla37xf0VfLDnukY3b8LPw MhQl8VguhxjBkgcUj3rZu+GQ1OaUpTw+x2L6xIT7nn1eFBkGa769BlAqqnrCSQo2 r/78o8Y0hG2c0GpLNDOvaGSGy0L26FrcRKw65HnF6QmySTz7GJVVzVjTlMdQWfnN hcV++Q00HKJc7Bd6BQziZbwsNKM8GaqsK/CQWW/NaJLoNEkySDd+qDJAVb9YRxK4 s6tcrOTmCZA7uichd4Mdc3r/zvALP6wTWraWovn40DttKmH0LTfxKA7BOxwIDzD8 YHy0wjIF6UCzyL6ivVi9enk4F31JhAUWm1O3Q476tcZIViLuMH5UCqxAEQvAyrGA mJjiPxy5CM5QPvXF3kR/usF/OkYSdDsYzxFoTY8ZqQL5eUv75lbBIpSzDZa022pK xkOhAskFcCR2Ufg0RwSo79vCFm5EOVuXZLSKYV2qAaYQZF8j/i0Me5XthfdBR+6j 83IohNrWH0Q2yiC5QV1S4GUKmcREc0fNWYchh2ghJYSb8TCdgVN2zwn1OYKlDXcU lalEP4BBkkwJeQfzQFDnAPU0OK9QscUcexbO9AQZTlIngM0FQ2Cbbnr9I/0+P4VH 8zE9Bz5xud6t76l7mJIaGqQsjdAWC4tyk2TkcUIWwLRlHod9EDwR+AGntEe9B4tp viiqada2bXY= =uSTd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-rcmkbwIvzzoCyQbHKDEl--