Re: [PATCH 1/2] kaweth: Fix locking to be SMP-safe

From: Oliver Neukum
Date: Tue Mar 31 2009 - 11:09:24 EST


Am Dienstag 31 März 2009 16:55:56 schrieb Larry Finger:
> Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > Very good.
> >
> >> (X server over the network), the interface stalled with no logged
> >> messages.
> >
> > Do you get something with sysrq-t ?
>
> No. The rest of the system was still functioning; however, the driver
> needed to be unloaded and reloaded before continuing. There were no log
> entries until the driver was unloaded.

This sounds like kaweth_tx_timeout() should have been called.
Did you enable enough logging to see
dev_warn(&net->dev, "%s: Tx timed out. Resetting.\n", net->name);

Regards
Oliver

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