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Re: [PATCH] Re: fealnx oopses

To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx>, Andreas Henriksson <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: fealnx oopses
From: Denis Vlasenko <vda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 22:05:53 +0200
Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx, Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Friday 26 March 2004 21:33, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > Although I now have the myson/fealnx card in my p3-900 (256Mb)
> > workstation instead of the old p-166 (40Mb) which served as a gateway
> > before. It might just be that it's harder to trigger on newer/bigger
> > machines. Maybee I should power up my p-166 again.. I actually have 2 of
> > these cards so I can have one in each machine.. :)
>
> Well really, somebody needs to port Donald Becker's myson driver to 2.6
> APIs...  I would like to get rid of fealnx, or somebody needs to spend a
> decent amount of time fixing it.
>
> Does the attached patch fix the issue?
>
>       Jeff

It may fix Andreas case, but I doubt it can fix mine -
mine was related to _rx_ code path.

I need to find a way to reliably reproduce oopses with unfixed driver first.
--
vda


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