Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932164AbWJ2Kd3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Oct 2006 05:33:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751464AbWJ2Kd3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Oct 2006 05:33:29 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:21995 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751030AbWJ2Kd2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Oct 2006 05:33:28 -0500 X-Authenticated: #20450766 Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 11:33:23 +0100 (CET) From: Guennadi Liakhovetski To: Adrian Bunk cc: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [0/3] 2.6.19-rc2: known regressions In-Reply-To: <20061014111458.GI30596@stusta.de> Message-ID: References: <20061014111458.GI30596@stusta.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1507 Lines: 29 Hi I did search the archives, but it does seem to be the new one. r8169 network driver introduced in 2.6.19-rcX a set_mac_address function, which doesn't work for me. It should resolve the bugreport http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6032 but, as you see from the last comment from the original reporter and from my following comment, it doesn't seem to. I think, it should either be fixed or reverted. My test-system, was a ppc NAS (KuroboxHG): 0000:00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10) Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- SERR-