From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jim McCullough" Subject: Re: E1000 stopped transmitting in rc3. Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 02:46:18 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20060428.001440.33235399.davem@davemloft.net> <39fa70c7844cbb7240b98446e0940de7@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: "David S. Miller" , davej@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from nproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.182.187]:36367 "EHLO nproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751485AbWD2GqU convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Apr 2006 02:46:20 -0400 Received: by nproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id o60so2576172nfa for ; Fri, 28 Apr 2006 23:46:18 -0700 (PDT) To: "Auke Kok" In-Reply-To: <39fa70c7844cbb7240b98446e0940de7@localhost> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org >>From what I have seen currently, the issue is resolved. Based on a test across multiple systems on x86-64, i386, and ia64 builds. On 4/28/06, Auke Kok wrote: > > > On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 00:14:40 -0700 (PDT), "David S. Miller" wrote: > > From: Auke Kok > > Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 18:54:28 -0700 > > > >> Dave Jones wrote: > >> > With 2.6.17-rc3, my E1000 won't get a dhcp lease. > >> > Looking at tcpdump and ifconfig output, it's easy to see why. > >> > It's recieving packets, but the packets transmitted field > >> > of ifconfig never increases. > >> > > >> > The last version I have built that worked ok was 2.6.17rc2-git3 > >> > >> *puzzled* > >> > >> the only patch between 2.6.17rc2 and 2.6.17rc3 contains an rx-path > > patch, but > >> nothing that affects tx. All the other patches sent earlier are queued > > for > >> 2.6.18 so they don't apply. > > > > If the rx path is corrupting the packets or providing bad > > checksums, there will be nothing to transmit back. > > > > So RX changes could explain the behavior. > > Jim sent me a private message that his colleagues messed up the build, and that it is working correctly now, right Jim? > > Cheers, > > Auke > > > -- Jim McCullough