Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757415AbZCNLkA (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Mar 2009 07:40:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756780AbZCNLiW (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Mar 2009 07:38:22 -0400 Received: from aun.it.uu.se ([130.238.12.36]:37232 "EHLO aun.it.uu.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756764AbZCNLiT (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Mar 2009 07:38:19 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <18875.38673.270977.133982@pilspetsen.it.uu.se> Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 12:37:53 +0100 From: Mikael Pettersson To: Tim Durack Cc: Francois Romieu , Mikael Pettersson , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, ivecera@redhat.com Subject: Re: [BUG] 2.6.29-rc7 broke r8169 MAC on Thecus n2100 ARM board In-Reply-To: <9e246b4d0903131921k6fba9b04ge945c2902d4117d0@mail.gmail.com> References: <200903092029.n29KT1DS004531@harpo.it.uu.se> <20090313201511.GA27827@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> <9e246b4d0903131921k6fba9b04ge945c2902d4117d0@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under Emacs 20.7.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1800 Lines: 49 Tim Durack writes: > 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: No joy here either. 2.6.29-rc8 + this patch shows the same misbehaviour as 2.6.29-rc7 had. Here's a minicom log of an attempted boot: (kernel messages) r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded r8169 0000:00:01.0: no PCI Express capability r8169 0000:00:01.0: MAC address found in EEPROM: 00:14:fd:10:00:00 eth0: RTL8169sb/8110sb at 0xe080c200, 00:00:00:00:00:00, XID 10000000 IRQ 27 r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded r8169 0000:00:02.0: no PCI Express capability r8169 0000:00:02.0: MAC address found in EEPROM: 00:14:fd:10:00:00 eth1: RTL8169sb/8110sb at 0xe0810300, 00:00:00:00:00:00, XID 10000000 IRQ 30 (init messages) Bringing up interface eth0: RTNETLINK answers: Cannot assign requested address Failed to bring up eth0. May I suggest that 6709fe9a27e43a4931938fe0d7f2cc5edef31386 is reverted until this regression is debugged and fixed? /Mikael -- 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/