Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 09:20:01 -0700
From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
To: Matthias Hentges <oe@hentges.net>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Netdev List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: sky2 (was Re: 2.6.18-mm2)
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On Sun, 08 Oct 2006 15:41:45 +0200
Matthias Hentges <oe@hentges.net> wrote:

> Hi Stephen,
> 
> I believe I have identified the problem. The freeze only happens when
> your debug patch to work around sky2 PCIe error messages is applied.
> Without your patch (attached) I get _tons_ of error messages and the NIC
> dies every few seconds / minutes (reproduceable!), but the system
> recovers just fine from a NIC crash.
> 
> I have verified this behavior (works fine w/o debug patch, freezes with
> patch applied) with:
> - 2.6.19-rc1-git4 
> - 2.6.18-git something 
> - 2.6.18-mm3
>   

Does 2.6.18 work?

What is the PCI config of the device (lspci -vvvx)?

What is the chip version (dmesg | grep sky2)?

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