Re: VIA Rhine ethernet driver bug (reprise...)

2005-08-26 Thread Denis Vlasenko
On Friday 26 August 2005 10:49, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Denis Vlasenko wrote: > > May be a known problem. A buglet in MII common code. > > Via-rhine maintainer knows about it, as does Jeff. > > You don't speak for me, sir. > > I know of no such problem. Please submit a report and/or patch. From: Den

Re: VIA Rhine ethernet driver bug (reprise...)

2005-08-26 Thread Roger Luethi
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 03:49:25 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Denis Vlasenko wrote: > >May be a known problem. A buglet in MII common code. > >Via-rhine maintainer knows about it, as does Jeff. > > You don't speak for me, sir. > > I know of no such problem. Please submit a report and/or patch. I bel

Re: VIA Rhine ethernet driver bug (reprise...)

2005-08-25 Thread Denis Vlasenko
On Friday 26 August 2005 06:43, Patrick Draper wrote: > On 8/23/05, Denis Vlasenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >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 fo

Re: VIA Rhine ethernet driver bug (reprise...)

2005-08-24 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 11:50 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 12:21 +0300, Denis Vlasenko wrote: > > My suggestion was, and still is: Never mind, I misread the original post. This workaround is probably OK if you only do the reset when this error condition arises. Lee - To unsub

Re: VIA Rhine ethernet driver bug (reprise...)

2005-08-24 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 12:21 +0300, Denis Vlasenko wrote: > 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? > >

Re: VIA Rhine ethernet driver bug (reprise...)

2005-08-23 Thread Denis Vlasenko
[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 conn

Re: VIA Rhine ethernet driver bug (reprise)

2005-08-11 Thread Denis Vlasenko
On Sunday 07 August 2005 21:02, Udo van den Heuvel wrote: > Hello, > > In january of this year I mentioned a problem with the Linux kernel > driver for VIA Rhine ethernet chips. (see http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/1/15/47) > In the mean time this bug was reproduced quite a number of times on my > Fedor