Re: Linux 2.6.21

[Stephen Clark <Stephen.Clark@seclark.us>]

Francois Romieu wrote:

> Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> :
>  
>
> > Francois Romieu wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > Pointer for the rtl8139 regression please ?
> > >      
> > I'm guessing it's this one:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > 	Subject    : boot failure: rtl8139: exception in interrupt routine
> > > 	References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/31/160
> > > 	Submitter  : Stephen Clark <Stephen.Clark@seclark.us>
> > > 	Status     : unknown
> > >      
> > The poster says rtl8139, but doesn't provide more info.  His lspci says 
> > "RTL8169SC", which sounds more like r8169 to me.
> >    
>
> Yes, thanks.
>
> The r8169 driver has been added a few bugfixes between 2.6.21-rc5 and now.
> Some are related to latent, timing changes induced bugs.
>
> Stephen, would you mind testing 2.6.21 and open a PR at bugzilla.kernel.org
> if the bug does not go away ?
>
> Bugzilla e-mails end directly in my mailbox. l-k traffic can be temporarily
> unnoticed (especially on saturday night).
>
>  
Sure I'll give it a try in the next couple of days.

Steve

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