[CCing maintaner] On Monday 22 August 2005 20:29, Udo van den Heuvel wrote: > Hello, > > It appears that the VIA Rhine chipset has some sort of bug which shows > up in both the standard Linux VIA-Rhine driver and the Rhinefet driver > that VIA itself provides. > > The difference is that the connection is dropped in case of the standard > Linux driver for VIA Rhine but that the connection remains OK with the > Rhinefet driver provided by VIA > (http://www.viaarena.com/downloads/Source/rhinefet.tgz and other places > on viaarena.com...). > So VIA Rhinefet driver consumes more CPU but is also more stable. > > I wrote about this issue before: http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/8/7/82 & > http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/1/15/47 etc. > I opened a bugzilla case: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5030 > > Who could find out why the standard Linux driver chokes and the Rhinefet > driver doesn't? Who could fix this bug?
My suggestion was, and still is: >Since it happens less than once a day, why not just add a code >to reset the NIC completely in this case, like it is >typically done in tx_timeout handlers of many NICs, and forget about it? Do you see any problems in this approach? -- vda - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/