Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 12985] New: (atl2) Attansic L2 network card goes down.

From: Andrew Morton <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 12:59:36 -0700

On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:00:57 GMT
[email-masked] wrote:

> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12985
> 
>            Summary: (atl2) Attansic L2 network card goes down.
>            Product: Drivers
>            Version: 2.5
>     Kernel Version: 2.6.29
>           Platform: All
>         OS/Version: Linux
>               Tree: Mainline
>             Status: NEW
>           Severity: normal
>           Priority: P1
>          Component: Network
>         AssignedTo: [email-masked]
>         ReportedBy: [email-masked]
>         Regression: No
> 
> 
> After booting into 2.6.29 kernel my network card goes down without any reasons.
> But wifi-card(ath5k) seems work fine.
> 
> madeee:~# lspci |grep Ether
> 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg
> Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)
> 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Attansic Technology Corp. L2 100 Mbit Ethernet
> Adapter (rev a0)
> 
> 
> madeee:~# modinfo atl2
> filename:       /lib/modules/2.6.29-eee/kernel/drivers/net/atlx/atl2.ko
> version:        2.2.3
> license:        GPL
> description:    Atheros Fast Ethernet Network Driver
> author:         Atheros Corporation <[email-masked]>, Chris Snook
> <[email-masked]>
> version:        2.1.3
> license:        GPL
> author:         Xiong Huang <[email-masked]>,  Chris Snook
> <[email-masked]>, Jay Cliburn <[email-masked]>
> srcversion:     CFB3AF8F8486BE7591B8BC5
> alias:          pci:v00001969d00002048sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
> depends:
> vermagic:       2.6.29-eee mod_unload modversions PENTIUMM
> parm:           TxMemSize:Bytes of Transmit Memory (array of int)
> parm:           RxMemBlock:Number of receive memory block (array of int)
> parm:           MediaType:MediaType Select (array of int)
> parm:           IntModTimer:Interrupt Moderator Timer (array of int)
> parm:           FlashVendor:SPI Flash Vendor (array of int)
> 
> madeee:~# uname -a
> Linux madeee 2.6.29-eee #2 Mon Mar 30 22:35:22 MSD 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

Is this a regression?  Was 2.6.28 OK?

Thanks.