From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Jones Subject: Re: PROBLEM: SIS900 Driver change in Linux Kernel 2.6.21 causes kernel panic. Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 18:17:04 -0400 Message-ID: <20070516221704.GC16810@redhat.com> References: <577536.90963.qm@web84207.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Daniele Venzano , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Neil Horman , Jeff Garzik , Andrew Morton , stable@kernel.org To: - Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:55722 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755456AbXEPWTi (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2007 18:19:38 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <577536.90963.qm@web84207.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 02:33:18PM -0700, - wrote: > Kernel version 2.6.20.4 works. What I'm experiencing is a kernel panic as > soon as the first received packet comes in via the sis900 ethernet > interface. The machine is locked up and part of the kernel panic message > is lost as it has scrolled off the screen and the virtual terminal has > crashed as well (the kernel appears to have done a permanent halt - the > keyboard LEDs are flashing). The only way I could get the machine to boot > without this problem was to unplug the ethernet cable - but it would > appear as soon as the the first packet was received after plugging the > cable back in. That's not good since the machine in question is a server > in a co-location facility (I can't print the screen either). The kernel > panic was repeatable without fail. As this usually happens before "init" > is called, the only "program" running is the kernel itself. I don't have > any syslog/dmesg message recorded to disk for the event. I've rolled back > to version 2.6.20.4 in the meantime. You need this.. http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux%2Fkernel%2Fgit%2Ftorvalds%2Flinux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=dc5a144991ba803bc8afded105c9db1dea0e57ab Which is queued for -stable afaik, but no sign of 2.6.21.2 yet. Greg/Chris? Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk