On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 01:45:07PM +0400, Alexandra N. Kossovsky wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 07:14:54PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> > Alexandra N. Kossovsky wrote:
> > > On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 07:41:56PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> > > > Sorry for the late followup. Are these messages appearing for any
> > > > traffic
> > > > or just specific patterns?
> > >
> > > As far as I've seen it, the problem is VLAN-related. It occurs if
> > > I enable some VLANs on the interface. These VLANs are used by test boxes
> > > (a lot of embedded linuxes with various software onboard), so it is hard
> > > to predict what do they send to the net because of software and hardware
> > > errors.
> > >
> > > Currently, I've disabled VLANs (they are not really necessary on that
> > > computer),
> > > and there are no problems...
> >
> > Do some of your embedded devices use big endian byte order? It suspect your
> > issue is fixed by the following commit:
> > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b9389796fa4c87fbdff33816e317cdae5f36dd0b
>
> I'm afraid I do not understand your idea. Some embedded devices are
> big endian, but the device with sky2 driver is little-endian (amd64,
> Intel Core Duo, just usual desktop).
> As far as I can see from the comments to the commit above, the patch
> fixes sky2 driver when it works with big endian host, which is not the
> case.
I misunderstodd. I thought your embedded devices were running Debian
kernels as well and the error was seen across several systems.
Cheers,
Moritz
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