From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: sky2 (was Re: 2.6.18-mm2) Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 19:07:05 -0400 Message-ID: <451C5599.80402@garzik.org> References: <20060928155053.7d8567ae.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Andrew Morton , Stephen Hemminger , Linux Kernel , Netdev List Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:14224 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750826AbWI1XHL (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Sep 2006 19:07:11 -0400 To: oe@hentges.net In-Reply-To: <20060928155053.7d8567ae.akpm@osdl.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton wrote: > Another customer.. > > Begin forwarded message: > > Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 00:44:01 +0200 > From: Matthias Hentges > To: Andrew Morton > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: 2.6.18-mm2 > > > Hello all, > > I've just tested -mm2 on my C2D system and I'm getting a lot of these > messages: > > "[ 139.143807] printk: 131 messages suppressed. > [ 139.148235] sky2 0000:03:00.0: pci express error (0x500547)" > > Please note that the "sky2" driver has always been the black sheep on > that system due to regular full lock-ups of the driver, requiring a > rmmod sky2 + modprobe sky2 cycle. > > This happens often enough to warrant writing a cronjob checking the > network and auto-rmmod'ing the module..... > > While the above is bloody annoying at times (heh), the driver never > caused any messages like the ones I now get with -mm2 . sky2 just turned on PCI Express error reporting, so it makes sense that messages would appear. The better question is whether this is a driver problem, or a hardware problem. With your "black sheep" comment, I wonder if it isn't a hardware problem that's been hidden. Jeff