From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Soren Hansen Subject: Re: r8169 patches Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 01:50:47 +0200 Message-ID: <20070628235047.GM4838@atlas.linux2go.dk> References: <20070628090054.GH4838@atlas.linux2go.dk> <20070628211036.GA4233@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="GU3/x65mZ6MFE8p3" Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Francois Romieu Return-path: Received: from atlas.linux2go.dk ([88.198.22.52]:41322 "EHLO atlas.linux2go.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762270AbXF2ASu (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:18:50 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070628211036.GA4233@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org --GU3/x65mZ6MFE8p3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 11:10:37PM +0200, Francois Romieu wrote: > > I have an Asrock ConRoe945G-DVI motherboard with a RTL8111/8168B in > > it. The stock r8159 driver locks up from time to time. I've > > described it here: https://launchpad.net/bugs/121815 . The patchset > > at http://www.fr.zoreil.com/linux/kernel/2.6.x/2.6.22-rc3/ seems to > > fix it. Can you explain why the patchset is not in the mainline > > kernel? > 1. thanks for the report Thanks for providing the patch! > 2. increase net.core.wmem_max, ping -f -q -l xx -s yy with xx and yy > big enough and the driver will _still_ stop receiving/transmitting :o( Oh, dear. > 3. if I take the time to write a nice message to tell you why, it will > delay me: > - publishing an updated patchset against -rc6 that can handle davem's > git-net with minor pain for akpm > - preparing a serie for Jeff > - answering the rot^Wpending r8169 reports Thanks for taking time to responding anyway! The reason I asked was that I was hoping the response would be that the patchset had no know regressions, but still lacked testing. In that case, I would have discussed its inclusion in our (Ubuntu's) alpha releases with our kernel team, but if you feel you're on track already, I'll stop annoying you. :) Thanks for your time. --GU3/x65mZ6MFE8p3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGhElXonjfXui9pOMRAhb5AJ91DeZ3SrJ3tg491aEFJfea515ypACgjHHW u9NzZtqFRrusDm0cGJ56fvY= =q051 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --GU3/x65mZ6MFE8p3--