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: Michael Grollman <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:20:10 -0700

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?
>>>
>>>   
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>
>   

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