Re: sky2 (was Re: 2.6.18-mm2)

From: Stephen Hemminger
Date: Sun Oct 08 2006 - 12:23:22 EST


On Sun, 08 Oct 2006 15:41:45 +0200
Matthias Hentges <oe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Stephen,
>
> I believe I have identified the problem. The freeze only happens when
> your debug patch to work around sky2 PCIe error messages is applied.
> Without your patch (attached) I get _tons_ of error messages and the NIC
> dies every few seconds / minutes (reproduceable!), but the system
> recovers just fine from a NIC crash.
>
> I have verified this behavior (works fine w/o debug patch, freezes with
> patch applied) with:
> - 2.6.19-rc1-git4
> - 2.6.18-git something
> - 2.6.18-mm3
>

Does 2.6.18 work?

What is the PCI config of the device (lspci -vvvx)?

What is the chip version (dmesg | grep sky2)?

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