Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list netdev); Wed, 14 Jan 2004 15:37:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from fr.zoreil.com (electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com [213.41.134.224]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.9) with SMTP id i0ENar6H017817 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 2004 15:36:54 -0800 Received: from electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by fr.zoreil.com (8.12.8/8.12.1) with ESMTP id i0ENXLsW008240; Thu, 15 Jan 2004 00:33:21 +0100 Received: (from romieu@localhost) by electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com (8.12.8/8.12.1) id i0ENXJEj008239; Thu, 15 Jan 2004 00:33:19 +0100 Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 00:33:19 +0100 From: Francois Romieu To: netdev@oss.sgi.com Cc: dpollock@acm.org, damouse@ntlworld.com, brad@mainstreetsoftworks.com, kinetik@orcon.net.nz Subject: Re: [patch] 2.6.1-bk1-netdev4 - latent bug Message-ID: <20040115003319.B4646@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> References: <20040114233350.A4646@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20040114233350.A4646@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com>; from romieu@fr.zoreil.com on Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 11:33:50PM +0100 X-Organisation: Land of Sunshine Inc. X-archive-position: 2451 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com X-original-sender: romieu@fr.zoreil.com Precedence: bulk X-list: netdev Content-Length: 798 Lines: 26 Francois Romieu : [bug expected in common revisions of r8169 driver ?] > against plain 2.6.x due to endianness conflict. I will regenerate a serie > for 2.6.1-bk1 in a few minutes. Serie available at: http://www.fr.zoreil.com/linux/kernel/2.6.x/2.6.1-bk1-b Tarball: http://www.fr.zoreil.com/linux/kernel/2.6.x/2.6.1-bk1-b/r8169-blob.tar.bz2 I will welcome feedback related to the behavior of the driver once the following serie is applied on top of 2.6.1-bk1 (may apply to 2.6.1 as well): r8169-dma-api-tx.patch r8169-dma-api-rx-buffers.patch r8169-dma-api-rx-buffers-ahum.patch r8169-dma-api-rx-buffers-argl.patch r8169-rx-fill-typo.patch r8169-start-xmit-fixes.patch r8169-dma-api-tx-buffers.patch r8169-tx-index-overflow.patch No intermediate tests needed. -- Ueimor