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:

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

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

2005-08-26 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

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

2005-08-26 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 forget about

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: Denis

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

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...)

2005-08-24 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? Do you

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

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

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 connection

VIA Rhine ethernet driver bug (reprise...)

2005-08-22 Thread Udo van den Heuvel
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

VIA Rhine ethernet driver bug (reprise...)

2005-08-22 Thread Udo van den Heuvel
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

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 >

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 Fedora

VIA Rhine ethernet driver bug (reprise)

2005-08-07 Thread Udo van den Heuvel
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 Fedora Core 3 (then)/4 (now) box (a VIA CL6000). An alternative driver by

VIA Rhine ethernet driver bug (reprise)

2005-08-07 Thread Udo van den Heuvel
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 Fedora Core 3 (then)/4 (now) box (a VIA CL6000). An alternative driver by