Subject: Re: networking busted in current -git ???
From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
To: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm@maven.pl>
Cc: Florin Iucha <florin@iucha.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       netdev@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 17:43:27 -0400
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On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 23:07 +0200, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> On Friday 08 of June 2007, you wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am using the current git tree: 85f6038f2170e3335dda09c3dfb0f83110e87019 .
> > Git tree from two days ago (with the same config) works fine.
> >
> > Attempting to acquire an IP address via DHCP fails with:
> >
> > SIOCSIFADDR: No buffer space available
> > Listening on LPF/eth0/00:19:b9:0c:9a:43
> > Sending on   LPF/eth0/00:19:b9:0c:9a:43
> > Sending on   Socket/fallback
> > DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
> > DHCPACK from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> > SIOCSIFADDR: No buffer space available
> > SIOCSIFNETMASK: Cannot assign requested address
> > SIOCSIFBRDADDR: Cannot assign requested address
> > SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable
> > bound to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -- renewal in 98610 seconds.
> >
> > This is on a Dell 490 with tg3 network driver running Ubuntu 7.04 .
> > .config and dmesg are appended.
> >
> > florin
> 
> Here it requires few retries (stop dhcpcd, start again) to get the IP. git 
> tree from few hours ago. tg3 driver. I also saw SIOCSIFADDR: No buffer space 
> available once.

(added netdev to the Cc list)

It is not dhcp. I'm seeing the same bug with bog-standard ifup with a
static address on an FC-6 machine.

It appears to be something in the latest dump from davem to Linus, but I
haven't yet had time to identify what.

Cheers
  Trond

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