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Re: [PROBLEM] r8169 deadlocks

To: Srihari Vijayaraghavan <harisri@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PROBLEM] r8169 deadlocks
From: Francois Romieu <romieu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 00:59:40 +0100
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Srihari Vijayaraghavan <harisri@xxxxxxxxxxx> :
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> I have a good news: I checked out things as usual under vanilla 
> linux-2.6.2-rc1, and to my surprise Kernel does not hang anymore :-). 
> (although Tx counter not incrementing is altogether another problem).

r8169 did not evolve between 2.6.1 and 2.6.2-rc1. Change of behavior
probably comes from some other part of the kernel. Joy.

> If you want me to I can test your r8169-tc-index-overflow.patch.

See attachment. It applies against plain 2.6.2-rc1.

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Ueimor

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