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Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 21:03:00 -0500 (EST)
From: Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>
To: Christoph Dworzak <linuxkernel@amazing.ch>
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Subject: Re: [tulip] 2.4.17 tulip multiport-patch
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On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Christoph Dworzak wrote:

> After lots of Headscratching, I found this little bug:
> 
> replace line 1642 of tulip_core.c:
> 
> 		    irq = last_irq;
> 
> with
> 
> 		    dev->irq = irq = last_irq;

Hmmm, a little bit of bad conversion here.  The tulip.c code follows
this section by

     dev->irq = irq;

a few lines later.

> While using the de4x5-driver, my system-load climbed steadily
> up. After 3 Days it was at 99.5%.

Check the interrupt count in /dev/interrupts.

> This was repeatable. -> Reboot every other day :(

Donald Becker				becker@scyld.com
Scyld Computing Corporation		http://www.scyld.com
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