From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Grollman Subject: Re: 8169 Intermittent ifup Failure Issue With RTL8102E Chipset in Intel's New D945GCLF Atom Board (Not the Initial Modprobe Crash, Another Problem) Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:20:10 -0700 Message-ID: <48D7D3CA.8040706@nscus.com> References: <4861800B.90703@nscus.com> <20080625213142.GA29890@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> <48640535.2050000@nscus.com> <20080626215918.GC2555@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> <1215435236.11909.121.camel@localhost> <487232F4.6000206@dell.com> <1215783324.11909.185.camel@localhost> <48777BC3.6090108@dell.com> <1216052460.23392.14.camel@localhost> Reply-To: mgrollman@nscus.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Mario Limonciello , Francois Romieu , netdev@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org To: Kasper Sandberg Return-path: Received: from smtp111.sat.emailsrvr.com ([66.216.121.111]:58705 "EHLO smtp111.sat.emailsrvr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751095AbYIVRUQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:20:16 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1216052460.23392.14.camel@localhost> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Did Francois's patch ever make it upstream? I recently tested against a stock debian sid kernel based on 2.6.26-5, and although my tests were not exhaustive, it seemed that the 8169 failure mode was still present. Kasper Sandberg wrote: > On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 10:26 -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote: > >> Kasper: >> >> http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=121498012600793&w=2 >> > > I just tested it. It fails. > > after a few unloads/loads the lspci -x output is garbled again. the > funny thing is (i have a dual nic board) its random which one that > breaks.. > > Francois, i tested your patch, > http://userweb.kernel.org/~romieu/r8169/2.6.26-rc9/20080710-r8169-test.patch against .26 and it WORKS. with all the other tests i've done, ~5 unloads/loads is more than enough to trigger it, i just did 50 on your patch, and it functions. > > Now i can have both msi and apic on.. Thanks alot. > > Do you have plans to get this merged? > > >> Regards >> >> Kasper Sandberg wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 10:15 -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote: >>> >>> Sorry, i am not subscribed to netdev or pci list, could you post here >>> aswell? >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> > > -- Michael Grollman National Scientific Corporation 8361 East Evans Rd Ste 106 Scottsdale, AZ. 85260 USA Voice: +1-480-948-8324 x 303 Fax: +1-480-483-8893 mgrollman@nscus.com www.nsct.info