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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [patch (testing)] Re: 2.6.20->2.6.21 - networking dies after
	random time
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:08:33 +0200
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* Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl> wrote:

> On 10-08-2007 10:05, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> ...
> > But suppressing the resend is not fixing the driver problem. The 
> > problem can show up with spurious interrupts and with interrupts on 
> > a shared PCI interrupt line at any time. It just might take weeks 
> > instead of minutes.
> 
> Maybe I miss something but it's not the same!

_now_ i finally understand what you probably meant: because sw-resend 
worked and hw-resend didnt, it's hw-resend that is causing the breakage, 
not any driver or irqflow bug - correct?

	Ingo