Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761962AbYGJTFn (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:05:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761408AbYGJTFV (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:05:21 -0400 Received: from electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com ([213.41.134.224]:55254 "EHLO electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760753AbYGJTFT (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:05:19 -0400 Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:05:08 +0200 From: Francois Romieu To: Marcus Sundberg Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.26-rc9] r8169: Avoid thrashing PCI conf space on RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_20. Message-ID: <20080710190508.GA18477@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> References: <48760F22.8040208@ingate.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48760F22.8040208@ingate.com> X-Organisation: Land of Sunshine Inc. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 859 Lines: 24 Marcus Sundberg : > The magic write to register 0x82 will often cause PCI config space on > my 8168 (PCI ID 10ec:8168, revision 2. mounted in an LG P300 laptop) > to be filled with ones during driver load, and thus breaking NIC > operation until reboot. If it does not happen on first driver load it > can easily be reproduced by unloading and loading the driver a few > times. Nice. Thanks. [...] > --- > The magic write is not present in the r8168 driver from RealTek either. > Does anyone know what it's supposed to do? No idea. It is not used in the 8101/8102 driver either. -- Ueimor -- 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/