Subject: Re: 8169 Intermittent ifup Failure Issue With RTL8102E Chipset in Intel's New D945GCLF Atom Board (Not the Initial Modprobe Crash, Another Problem)

From: Kasper Sandberg <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:21:00 +0200

On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 10:26 -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> Kasper:
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> 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?
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