Re: sky2 (was Re: 2.6.18-mm2)

2006-10-09 Thread Beber
Le Sun, 8 Oct 2006 09:20:01 -0700, Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > On Sun, 08 Oct 2006 15:41:45 +0200 > Matthias Hentges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Stephen, > > > > I believe I have identified the problem. The freeze only happens when > > your debug patch to work aroun

Re: sky2 (was Re: 2.6.18-mm2)

2006-10-08 Thread Matthias Hentges
Am Sonntag, den 08.10.2006, 09:20 -0700 schrieb Stephen Hemminger: > On Sun, 08 Oct 2006 15:41:45 +0200 > Matthias Hentges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > I have verified this behavior (works fine w/o debug patch, freezes with > > patch applied) with: > > - 2.6.19-rc1-git4 > > - 2.6.18-git

Re: sky2 (was Re: 2.6.18-mm2)

2006-10-08 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Sun, 08 Oct 2006 15:41:45 +0200 Matthias Hentges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Stephen, > > I believe I have identified the problem. The freeze only happens when > your debug patch to work around sky2 PCIe error messages is applied. > Without your patch (attached) I get _tons_ of error messa

Re: sky2 (was Re: 2.6.18-mm2)

2006-10-08 Thread Matthias Hentges
Hi Stephen, I believe I have identified the problem. The freeze only happens when your debug patch to work around sky2 PCIe error messages is applied. Without your patch (attached) I get _tons_ of error messages and the NIC dies every few seconds / minutes (reproduceable!), but the system recovers

Re: sky2 (was Re: 2.6.18-mm2)

2006-10-07 Thread Matthias Hentges
Hello Stephen, Am Dienstag, den 03.10.2006, 20:26 -0700 schrieb Stephen Hemminger: [...] > > while the above patch indeed removes the error messages from my previous > > mail, I have since seen random but reproduceable freezes of the box in > > question. I believe they are sky2 related since th

Re: sky2 (was Re: 2.6.18-mm2)

2006-10-03 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 04:57:08 +0200 Matthias Hentges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Stephen, > > Am Donnerstag, den 28.09.2006, 16:19 -0700 schrieb Stephen Hemminger: > > > Here is the debug patch I sent to the first reporter of the problem. > > I know what the offset is supposed to be, so if

Re: sky2 (was Re: 2.6.18-mm2)

2006-10-03 Thread Matthias Hentges
Hello Stephen, Am Donnerstag, den 28.09.2006, 16:19 -0700 schrieb Stephen Hemminger: > Here is the debug patch I sent to the first reporter of the problem. > I know what the offset is supposed to be, so if the PCI subsystem is > wrong, this will show. > > --- sky2.orig/drivers/net/sky2.c 2

Re: sky2 (was Re: 2.6.18-mm2)

2006-09-29 Thread Matthias Hentges
Hello Stephen, Am Donnerstag, den 28.09.2006, 16:19 -0700 schrieb Stephen Hemminger: [...] > Here is the debug patch I sent to the first reporter of the problem. > I know what the offset is supposed to be, so if the PCI subsystem is > wrong, this will show. > > --- sky2.orig/drivers/net/sky2.c

Re: sky2 (was Re: 2.6.18-mm2)

2006-09-29 Thread Andrea Gelmini
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 04:30:23PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > Note: I know what is causing all the sky2 problems, there is something wrong > that > is causing flow control negotiation not to propagate back to all the multiple > levels > of the chip. Unclear how to fix it, the documentation

Re: sky2 (was Re: 2.6.18-mm2)

2006-09-28 Thread Stephen Hemminger
> > See also http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7222 > > That's two reports in 18 hours, from amongst the presumably-small population > of sky2-owning -mm testers. I'll back it out if we don't get a simple resolution. It was just trying to use the pci facilities as intended. Note: I kn

Re: sky2 (was Re: 2.6.18-mm2)

2006-09-28 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 19:07:05 -0400 Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > > Another customer.. > > > > Begin forwarded message: > > > > Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 00:44:01 +0200 > > From: Matthias Hentges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc:

Re: sky2 (was Re: 2.6.18-mm2)

2006-09-28 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 19:07:05 -0400 Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > > Another customer.. > > > > Begin forwarded message: > > > > Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 00:44:01 +0200 > > From: Matthias Hentges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc:

sky2 (was Re: 2.6.18-mm2)

2006-09-28 Thread Jeff Garzik
Andrew Morton wrote: Another customer.. Begin forwarded message: Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 00:44:01 +0200 From: Matthias Hentges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.18-mm2 Hello all, I've just tested -mm2 on my C2D system a