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: Rolf Eike Beer <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:52:19 +0200

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.patc
>h 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.

Is there any chance this helps with the famous 8101 problems, e.g. 
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6807 ?

> Now i can have both msi and apic on.. Thanks alot.
>
> Do you have plans to get this merged?

There is a typo in the description of 91ba1a976c214766b5ee8c6d17086903c10f6405 
(serie should be series I think).

Greetings,

Eike