Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 22:17:41 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
       Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: forcedeth problems on 2.6.20-rc6-mm3
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On Sun, 04 Feb 2007 23:48:33 -0600 Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca> wrote:

> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Sun, 04 Feb 2007 23:13:09 -0600 Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca> wrote:
> > 
> >> Something's busted with forcedeth in 2.6.20-rc6-mm3 for me relative to 
> >> 2.6.20-rc6. There's no errors in dmesg, but it seems no packets ever get 
> >> received and so the machine can't get an IP address. I tried reverting 
> >> all the -mm changes to drivers/net/forcedeth.c, which didn't help. The 
> >> network controller shares an IRQ with the USB OHCI controller which is 
> >> receiving interrupts, so it doesn't seem like an interrupt routing 
> >> problem, though I suppose something wierd could be happening there.
> >>
> >> This is on an Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe (CK804 chipset) on x86_64.
> >>
> >> Any suggestions on how to debug/what to try reverting to see what's 
> >> causing this?
> > 
> > There are many forcedeth changes in git-netdev-all.patch.  Can you
> > try reverting drivers/net/forcedeth.c back to the unpatched version
> > from 2.6.20-rc6?
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> 
> That's essentially what I did, it didn't appear to help. I assume the
> problem must lie elsewhere..
> 

doh, I missed that.

It's presumably not the driver and nobody else seems to be hitting this, so
it must be something peculiar to your setup.  But I don't know what it
might be, sorry.
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