Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755159AbXKXNLh (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Nov 2007 08:11:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753149AbXKXNL1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Nov 2007 08:11:27 -0500 Received: from rayleigh.systella.fr ([213.41.184.253]:34915 "EHLO rayleigh.systella.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752893AbXKXNL0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Nov 2007 08:11:26 -0500 Message-ID: <474822F3.6070803@systella.fr> Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 14:11:15 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?BERTRAND_Jo=EBl?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux sparc64; fr-FR; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071030 Iceape/1.1.6 (Debian-1.1.6-2) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steffen Klassert CC: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: NETDEV WATCHDOG (3Com 3c905 adapter) References: <4746C44B.8040008@systella.fr> <4746F747.4010906@systella.fr> <20071124111425.GA29778@newton.mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de> In-Reply-To: <20071124111425.GA29778@newton.mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.1.8 (rayleigh.systella.fr [192.168.254.1]); Sat, 24 Nov 2007 14:11:21 +0100 (CET) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1505 Lines: 38 Steffen Klassert wrote: > On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 04:52:39PM +0100, BERTRAND Jo?l wrote: >> BERTRAND Jo?l wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> Since I have installed a 2.6.23.1 linux kernel on my U60, I can see >>> several NETDEV WATCHDOG. This trouble never occurs with 2.6.23-rc4. >>> This bug occurs after a random uptime. >> I have made the same constation this evening on a amd64/up with two >> 3C905 and a 2.6.21.3 linux kernel... This evening, I have rebooted my >> U60 with a 2.6.23.8 kernel and the same 3C905 runs fine. Wait and see >> (but I suspect a kernel bug...). >> >> For main linux kernel list: >> >>> End of dmesg : >>> >>> NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth2: transmit timed out >>> eth2: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status 8601. >>> diagnostics: net 0ccc media 8880 dma 0000003a fifo 0000 >>> eth2: Interrupt posted but not delivered -- IRQ blocked by another device? > > This looks like a problem that several network drivers had recently. > The problem was genirq related and should be fixed in 2.6.23, > so I'm surprised that this happens with 2.6.23.1 but not with 2.6.23-rc4. I can confirm that my U60 worked fine sixty days with 2.6.23-rc4 without any trouble. With 2.6.23.1, 3com NIC hangs after three or four days... Regards, JKB - 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/