Control: tag -1 unreproducible On Mon, 2013-01-07 at 11:16 +0000, Berni Elbourn wrote: > On 06/01/13 02:44, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > If I understand your original report correctly, the tg3 driver in Debian > > kernel version 2.6.32-45 fails periodically and the driver in version > > 3.2.20-1~bpo60+1 does not. So we need to look for a fix to the driver > > that was made between those versions. > > > > Let me know if my understanding is correct. > > > > Ben. > > > > Sorry for not updating. The current versions in squeeze seems to be fine now > running for days without incident. > > elbournb@red:~$ cat /proc/version > Linux version 2.6.32-5-amd64 (Debian 2.6.32-46) (da...@debian.org) (gcc > version 4.3.5 (Debian 4.3.5-4) ) #1 SMP Sun Sep > 23 10:07:46 UTC 2012
There have been no changes to tg3 between 2.6.32-45 and -46, so there cannot have been any bug fix. > elbournb@red:~$ sudo ethtool -i eth0 > driver: tg3 > version: 3.116 > firmware-version: 5722-v3.07, ASFIPMI v6.02 > bus-info: 0000:11:00.0 > > I can easily move this system to the backport kernel for a few days. Would > that be a valid test to close the issue for > Wheezy too? If you can't reproduce the bug on squeeze now, then I don't think you can tell whether it has been fixed in any other version. Perhaps there was a change in some external condition that triggered it. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If you seem to know what you are doing, you'll be given more to do.
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