Hello Andrea Arcangeli,
1. Hardware: M/B Intel "Tupelo" STL2.
Network card :
(/proc/pci)
Bus 0, device 3, function 0:
Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 8).
IRQ 18.
Master Capable. Latency=66. Min Gnt=8.Max Lat=56.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfb101000 [0xfb101fff].
I/O at 0x5400 [0x543f].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfb000000 [0xfb0fffff].
2. from serial console:
...
Intel(R) PRO/100 Fast Ethernet Adapter - Loadable driver, ver 2.0.30-k1
Copyright (c) 2002 Intel Corporation
hw init failed
Failed to initialize e100, instance #0
...
3. 2.4.19rc1aa1 - work ok.
4. My .config
...
# CONFIG_EEPRO100 is not set
CONFIG_E100=y
...
Once you wrote about "2.4.19rc1aa2":
> URL:
>
> http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.19rc1aa2.gz
> http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.19rc1aa2/
>
> Only in 2.4.19rc1aa2: 000_e100-2.0.30-k1.gz
> Only in 2.4.19rc1aa2: 000_e1000-4.2.17-k1.gz
> Only in 2.4.19rc1aa1: 07_e100-1.8.38.gz
> Only in 2.4.19rc1aa1: 08_e100-includes-1
> Only in 2.4.19rc1aa1: 09_e100-compilehack-1
>
> New patch.
>
> Only in 2.4.19rc1aa2: 00_drop-broken-flock-account-1
>
> per-task flock accounting was broken across tasks sharing the same
> files. Removed temporarly. This should fix sendmail. If somebody
> wanted to bypass the rlimit he needed simply to use fcntl instead
> so it's not going to make much difference for 2.4. Fix from
> Matthew Wilcox.
>
> Only in 2.4.19rc1aa1: 00_o_direct-open-check-1
> Only in 2.4.19rc1aa2: 10_o_direct-open-check-2
>
> Rediffed and changed some check for ->mapping that didn't made much
> sense (if either mapping or a_ops are missing we shouldn't let O_DIRECT
> to succeed either).
>
> Only in 2.4.19rc1aa2: 00_parport_pc-compile-1
>
> Compile parport_pc from Eyal Lebedinsky.
>
> Only in 2.4.19rc1aa2: 00_poll-speedup-1
>
> This allocates some hundred bytes from the stack to handle most
> poll common cases, with a small number of fd. At least the stack hungry
> places aren't going to be stacked one on top of the other (i.e. poll
> cannot run under follow_link etc..). Patch from Andi Kleen.
>
> Only in 2.4.19rc1aa2: 00_setfl-race-fix-1
>
> Fix race with ->fasync and O_DIRECT fcntl F_SETFL. O_DIRECT
> problem noticed by Matthew Wilcox, fasync problem noticed by
> Marcus Alanen.
>
> Only in 2.4.19rc1aa2: 10_o1-sched-updates-A4-3
> Only in 2.4.19rc1aa1: 20_o1-sched-updates-A4-2
>
> Rediffed before rcu_poll.
>
> Only in 2.4.19rc1aa1: 10_rcu-poll-6
> Only in 2.4.19rc1aa2: 20_rcu-poll-7
>
> Fixed potential starvation if idle task was scheduled by the time
> force_cpu_reschedule was executed. Also the original o1
> force_cpu_reschedule implementation for 2.5 was not correct. This new
> corrected one is getting merged soon into the rcu-poll for 2.5 too.
>
> Only in 2.4.19rc1aa2: 50_uml-patch-2.4.18-36.gz
>
> New update from Jeff.
>
> Only in 2.4.19rc1aa1: 90_acpi-2.5.24-1.gz
>
> Dropped, my laptop had an hardware problem so I'm not going to test it
> soon. Also it needed the backport of the pci-irq enable callbacks, it
> was very near to be finished. If my future laptop will deadlock at boot
> again with the 2.4 ACPI I will be willing to finish it :). If somebody
> wants to contine on its own I've an unreleased -2 revision that was a
> bit more uptodate than the above one too.
>
> Only in 2.4.19rc1aa1: 90_init-survive-threaded-race-3
> Only in 2.4.19rc1aa2: 90_init-survive-threaded-race-4
>
> Fixed merging error, good spotting by by Sami Farin.
>
> Only in 2.4.19rc1aa1: 93_NUMAQ-3
> Only in 2.4.19rc1aa2: 93_NUMAQ-4
>
> Rediffed.
>
> Only in 2.4.19rc1aa1: 94_numaq-tsc-2
> Only in 2.4.19rc1aa2: 94_numaq-tsc-3
>
> s/==/=/. Apparently menuconfig understand the C like "==" syntax too,
> because it worked as expected until somebody tried xconfig. Fix from
> J.A. Magallon. (I use menuconfig so I could hardly notice it :)
>
> Andrea
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