Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762475AbXEUPqR (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 May 2007 11:46:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756360AbXEUPqG (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 May 2007 11:46:06 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([207.189.120.12]:55043 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756380AbXEUPqF (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 May 2007 11:46:05 -0400 Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 08:45:49 -0700 From: Stephen Hemminger To: Mike Houston Cc: Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2 Message-ID: <20070521084549.61a1aa71@freepuppy> In-Reply-To: <20070520170506.814a38d9.mikeserv@bmts.com> References: <20070520170506.814a38d9.mikeserv@bmts.com> Organization: Linux Foundation X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.6.0 (GTK+ 2.10.11; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1229 Lines: 32 On Sun, 20 May 2007 17:05:06 -0400 Mike Houston wrote: > On Fri, 18 May 2007 22:17:14 -0700 (PDT) > Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > Stephen Hemminger (7): > > [TCP] slow start: Make comments and code logic clearer. > > *** sky2: remove Gigabyte 88e8056 restriction *** > > sky2: PHY register settings > > sky2: keep track of receive alloc failures > > sky2: MIB counter overflow handling > > sky2: remove dual port workaround > > sky2: memory barriers change > > > > I tested this and it's still horribly broken for me with Gigabyte > 88E8056 onboard LAN. Same symptom as before, it works for several > seconds and then dies. It's almost certainly a problem with the BIOS and hardware (not a sky2) driver issue. Since there are many similar boards and configurations, I made the decision not to enforce restrictions in the driver. -- Stephen Hemminger - 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/