Re: lance32.c vs pcnet32.c and troubles with AMD 79C970

Wojtek Pilorz (wpilorz@bdk.pl)
Wed, 2 Sep 1998 15:37:00 +0200 (MET DST)


On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Alan Cox wrote:

> Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 15:20:40 +0100 (BST)
> From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
> To: Wojtek Pilorz <wpilorz@bdk.pl>
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
> Subject: Re: lance32.c vs pcnet32.c and troubles with AMD 79C970
>
> > eth0: transmit timed out, status 0072, resetting.
> > Ring data dump: dirty_tx 0 cur_tx 16 (full) cur_rx 0.
> > 80fd7018 0608 0000 80fd7810 0608 0000 80fd6018 0608 0000 80fd6810 0608 0000
> > 80fd5018 0608 0000 80fd5810 0608 0000 80fd4018 0608 0000 80fd4810 0608 0000
> > 80fd3018 0608 0000 80fd3810 0608 0000 80fd2018 0608 0000 80fd2810 0608 0000
> > 80fd1018 0608 0000 80fd1810 0608 0000 80fd0018 0608 0000 80fd0810 0608 0000
> > 83091edc 002a 0000 83091be8 002a 0000 830919f0 002a 0000 83091aec 002a 0000
> > 83091ce4 002a 0000 83091de0 002a 0000 8308a448 002a 0000 8308aa50 002a 0000
> > 8308b058 002a 0000 8308b660 002a 0000 8308bc68 002a 0000 8308c270 002a 0000
> > 8308c878 002a 0000 8308ce80 002a 0000 8308d488 002a 0000 8308da90 002a 0000
>
> That normally indicates a busy lan or a momentary break from it
>
> > alloc_skb called nonatomically from interrupt 00000608
> > last message repeated 3 times
> > kmalloc called nonatomically from interrupt 000006a4
> > last message repeated 3 times
> > gfp called nonatomically from interrupt 00000003
> > last message repeated 3 times
>
> (and these are a known bug)
>
> Alan
>
Still, the card does nto work at all with 2.0.35, and works perfectly
with 2.0.32, so I would believe that there is some problem with the new
driver;

Wojtek

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