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From: Oleg Verych <olecom@flower.upol.cz>
Subject: Re: sky2 driver causes kernel crash as of 2.6.18.1
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 15:57:41 +0000 (UTC)
Organization: Palacky University in Olomouc, experimental physics department.
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On 2006-11-01, John Clark wrote:
> I have been compiling kernels from 2.6.16.16 on to see if there is any 
> improvement
> in the Sky2 driver. The most recent official kernel version, 2.6.18.1, 
> as of 10/31/06
> seems to still have problems.
>
> The crash debug splat indicates that the transmit routine was being 
> executed when
> the final crash occured. But before the crash there were a series of 
> diagnostics from
> the driver:
>
> NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth4: transmit time out
> sky2 eth4: tx timeout
> sky2 hardware hung? flushing
>
> messages.
>
> Is there any better driver in a 'unstable' kernel that someone has 
> tested sufficiently?

Well, try "unstable" 2.6.19-rc4. I'm not sure, but bug may be related to
7bd656d12119708b37414bf909ab2995473da818

Although, there are some sky2 updates in future 2.6.18.2, maybe they
are related too.
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