Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752551AbZCNC3i (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:29:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751805AbZCNC3Z (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:29:25 -0400 Received: from mail-gx0-f165.google.com ([209.85.217.165]:45501 "EHLO mail-gx0-f165.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751282AbZCNC3Y (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:29:24 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 374 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:29:23 EDT DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=lKH4bNPIPsk7Vd5w+BtF6sTMT7eVRtGXZN67mr6SZWbEymd1SAWHfRoOxqvvGOhtJy 7oLdERuhtgGSOATOWwqJhjDWejsIMbN1X0CYHZ2PgqJ7TU6KZMvMAQfIk3BSlq8Af6Gm 6hYLShS7DMT9RflI24GfmcG51fNzNla8Hj7uA= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20090313201511.GA27827@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> References: <200903092029.n29KT1DS004531@harpo.it.uu.se> <20090313201511.GA27827@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:23:04 -0400 Message-ID: <9e246b4d0903131923lecba2bah940f41c9c5fa6b03@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [BUG] 2.6.29-rc7 broke r8169 MAC on Thecus n2100 ARM board From: Tim Durack To: Francois Romieu Cc: Mikael Pettersson , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, ivecera@redhat.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2013 Lines: 48 On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Francois Romieu wrote: > Mikael Pettersson : >> With the 2.6.29-rc7 kernel I'm unable to 'ifup' eth0 on my ARM-based >> Thecus n2100 NAS box, which has an RTL8169 NIC (10ec:8169 (rev 10)). >> A diff of the kernel logs from 2.6.29-rc6 and -rc7 shows that -rc7 >> first mangles and then zaps the MAC addresses: > > Can you apply the attached patch and see if it fixes any of these > problems ? > > Tim, could you give it a try too ? It applies with "patch -p1" from > the kernel tree directory. > > -- > Ueimor > No luck: B-25-1NOC-CFG-1:~# modprobe -if r8169 [ 120.938729] r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded [ 120.945018] r8169 0000:00:09.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18 [ 120.953409] r8169 0000:00:09.0: no PCI Express capability [ 120.960359] r8169 0000:00:09.0: MAC address found in EEPROM: 00:30:18:ab:f0:34 [ 120.978441] eth1: RTL8169sc/8110sc at 0xf8154000, 00:00:00:00:f0:34, XID 18000000 IRQ 18 [ 120.988468] r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded [ 120.994119] r8169 0000:00:0b.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19 [ 121.001139] r8169 0000:00:0b.0: no PCI Express capability [ 121.006922] r8169 0000:00:0b.0: MAC address found in EEPROM: 00:30:18:ab:f0:35 [ 121.063615] eth2: RTL8169sc/8110sc at 0xf801e000, 00:00:00:00:f0:35, XID 18000000 IRQ 19 [ 121.072495] r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded [ 121.078188] r8169 0000:00:0c.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 [ 121.085239] r8169 0000:00:0c.0: no PCI Express capability [ 121.091025] r8169 0000:00:0c.0: MAC address found in EEPROM: 00:30:18:ab:f0:36 [ 121.147502] eth3: RTL8169sc/8110sc at 0xf8022000, 00:00:00:00:f0:36, XID 18000000 IRQ 16 Tim:> -- 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/