Re: r8169 bug in 2.4.22, too much work at interrupt indefinitely

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 01:38:14 +0200
"John Bäckstrand"  <sandos@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> The r8169 driver in 2.4.22 with or without debian patches/acpi/usb devices sharing the same interrupt: the driver always ends up locking the machine by having indefinitely much to do in the interrupt handler? 
> 
> Commented the printk out, still hangs the machine anyway. It happens even without a cable in the card. I have found no references to any bug reports at all with this card, and I cant see any bugfixes being in 2.5/2.6 but not 2.4 either. I can see the card TX/RX:ing a few hundred packets or more (3-60 secs) before hanging.
> 
> Any way to debug this, or should I just try 2.6?
> 
> ---
> John Bäckstrand

2.6 will have the same problem.   I have a version that uses NAPI that shouldn't hang.
It seems to work fine, but didn't want to submit it without more testing.


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