On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 19:07:05 -0400
Jeff Garzik <[email protected]> wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Another customer..
> >
> > Begin forwarded message:
> >
> > Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 00:44:01 +0200
> > From: Matthias Hentges <[email protected]>
> > To: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
> > Cc: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: 2.6.18-mm2
> >
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I've just tested -mm2 on my C2D system and I'm getting a lot of these
> > messages:
> >
> > "[ 139.143807] printk: 131 messages suppressed.
> > [ 139.148235] sky2 0000:03:00.0: pci express error (0x500547)"
> >
> > Please note that the "sky2" driver has always been the black sheep on
> > that system due to regular full lock-ups of the driver, requiring a
> > rmmod sky2 + modprobe sky2 cycle.
> >
> > This happens often enough to warrant writing a cronjob checking the
> > network and auto-rmmod'ing the module.....
> >
> > While the above is bloody annoying at times (heh), the driver never
> > caused any messages like the ones I now get with -mm2 .
>
> sky2 just turned on PCI Express error reporting, so it makes sense that
> messages would appear. The better question is whether this is a driver
> problem, or a hardware problem. With your "black sheep" comment, I
> wonder if it isn't a hardware problem that's been hidden.
>
See also http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7222
That's two reports in 18 hours, from amongst the presumably-small population
of sky2-owning -mm testers.
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