From: Pete Clements <clem@clem.clem-digital.net>
Message-Id: <200603301346.k2UDksdJ001794@clem.clem-digital.net>
Subject: Re: Correction: 2.6.16-git12 killed networking -- 3c900 card
To: akpm@osdl.org (Andrew Morton)
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 08:46:54 -0500 (EST)
Cc: clem@clem.clem-digital.net (Pete Clements),
       klassert@mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
In-Reply-To: <20060329210904.3e1391bb.akpm@osdl.org>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
Content-Length: 1748
Lines: 46

Quoting Andrew Morton
  > Pete Clements <clem@clem.clem-digital.net> wrote:
  > >
  > > Quoting Andrew Morton
  > >   > 
  > >   > Oh damn.  So you're sure that 3c59x.global_enable_wol=0 actually makes the
  > >   > driver behave better?
  > >   > 
  > > Ok, new results.
  > > Built a new virgin 2.6.16.
  > > 1) able to stimulate a tx time out message
  > > 2) rebooted with 3c59x.global_enable_wol=0 on command line,
  > >    able to stimulate a tx time out message
  > > 
  > > Applied the collision statistics fix fix. Changed the extraversion
  > > in the top Makefile to preserve my baseline, also make does more
  > > work than previous. 
  > > 1) Booted and unable to stimulate a tx time out message
  > > 
  > > Rebooted to virgin 2.6.16
  > > 1) able to stimulate a tx time out message
  > > 2) rebooted with 3c59x.global_enable_wol=0 on command line,
  > >    able to stimulate a tx time out message
  > > 
  > > Rebooted to the patched driver kernel (collision statistics fix fix)
  > > 1) unable to stimulate a tx time out message.
  > > 
  > > Rebooted to virgin 2.6.16
  > > 1) able to stimulate a tx time out message
  > > 
  > > Appears that earlier results were tainted.
  > > 
  > 
  > OK, thanks.  So it looks like 3c59x-collision-statistics-fix-fix.patch is
  > the only patch which we need to return your machine to working condition?
  > 

Looks like that is the case until -git12, which Steffen has identified.
Tested on git18 (with git12 fix) and looks good.
-- 
Pete Clements 
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/