From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Fw: Bug: PPP dropouts in >=2.6.16 Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 15:07:33 -0700 Message-ID: <20060426150733.53cc9032.akpm@osdl.org> References: <20060421010809.6c3cfc34.akpm@osdl.org> <4807377b0604211015j16b40cccpe215668f8fdcfc24@mail.gmail.com> <200604220202.59434.ak@suse.de> <20060424074148.GB23340@zion.homelinux.com> <20060426212542.GA9287@zion.homelinux.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: lkml@jawad.org, ak@suse.de, jesse.brandeburg@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:1945 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932407AbWDZWFR (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Apr 2006 18:05:17 -0400 To: Sven Schuster In-Reply-To: <20060426212542.GA9287@zion.homelinux.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Sven Schuster wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 02:36:18AM +0200, Nuri Jawad told us: > > Did you create a high load on the system in the manner I described? > > The bug once only appeared after about 6 hours here when line + CPU had > > been mostly idle. But that was the longest time between failures. Can you > > test with one of the 2.6.16 kernels I tried (latest was .9)? Can't say > > Unfortunately it seems like plain 2.6.16.x doesn't like the ide > controller on my (VIA) mainboard, I'm getting I/O errrors on hda > when booting this kernel (but hard drive works ok with -mm) :-( > actually I haven't been running a plain stable kernel for a while, > I've been running -mm kernels for ages... > So there's something in -mm which fixes your kernel? It's usually the other way around ;) And it sounds like something which has been in -mm for a long time, so it might not be a patch which I was planning on sending upstream. Can you think of a way in which we can identify which patch does the good deed?