Then I got very, very lucky, since I have successfully rebooted 2.6.23.1-23.fc8 four times (zero panics) and this is the first time a 2.6.23 kernel has not panicked on me in months.
This does not fill me with confidence in the theory that the panics I've been seeing are due to a race condition. Dave > -----Original Message----- > From: Dave Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2007 6:05 PM > To: Kok, Auke > Cc: David Mack; Herbert Xu; netdev@vger.kernel.org; > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: e100 problems in .23rc8 ? > > On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 10:59:59AM -0700, Kok, Auke wrote: > > David Mack wrote: > > > It appears that the needed e100 fix made it into the Fedora > > > 2.6.23.1-23.fc8 kernel. Boots reliably now. > > > > > > Huge thanks and great work, guys. > > > > DaveJ, I didn't push anything upstream. Can you verify > this now works? > > There was no e100 changes in the kernel above, so David just > got lucky. (The race doesn't always occur, so it sometimes appears > something got fixed.). > > I included the patch below in the latest build, but I've not had > chance to try it on an e100 box yet.. > > Dave > > --- linux-2.6.23.noarch/drivers/net/e100.c~ 2007-10-18 > 16:10:40.000000000 -0400 > +++ linux-2.6.23.noarch/drivers/net/e100.c 2007-10-18 > 16:16:02.000000000 -0400 > @@ -2682,6 +2682,8 @@ static int __devinit e100_probe(struct p > if (err) > DPRINTK(PROBE, ERR, "Error clearing wake event\n"); > > + netif_poll_disable(netdev); > + > strcpy(netdev->name, "eth%d"); > if((err = register_netdev(netdev))) { > DPRINTK(PROBE, ERR, "Cannot register net > device, aborting.\n"); > > -- > http://www.codemonkey.org.uk > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
