"Michael Chan" <mc...@broadcom.com> writes:
> On Fri, 2012-09-28 at 22:45 +0200, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>
>> Upgrading the kernel on our HS20 blades resulted in their SoL (serial
>> over LAN) connection being broken. The disconnection happens when eth0
>> (the interface involved in SoL) is brought up during the boot sequence.
>> If I later "ip link set eth0 down", then the connection is restored, but
>> "ip link set eth0 up" breaks it again on 3.2. ethtool -a, -c, -g, -k
>> and -u show no difference; ethtool -i on the 2.6.32 kernel reports:
>>
>> driver: tg3
>> version: 3.116
>> firmware-version: 5704s-v3.38, ASFIPMIs v2.47
>> bus-info: 0000:05:01.0
>>
>> In the 3.2 kernel the driver version is 3.121.
>
> 2.6.32 to 3.2 is a big jump. Can you narrow this down further? It will
> be hard for us to find a HS20 with 5704 to test this. Thanks.
I'm done with bisecting it: the first bad commit is:
commit dabc5c670d3f86d15ee4f42ab38ec5bd2682487d
Author: Matt Carlson <mcarl...@broadcom.com>
Date: Thu May 19 12:12:52 2011 +0000
tg3: Move TSO_CAPABLE assignment
This patch moves the code that asserts the TSO_CAPABLE flag closer to
where the TSO capabilities flags are set. There isn't a good enough
reason for the code to be separated.
Signed-off-by: Matt Carlson <mcarl...@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Chan <mc...@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net>
On the other hand, losing the SoL console even temporarily during boot
(as it happens with a minimal kernel before this commit) isn't nice
either. I'll try to look after that, too, just mentioning it here...
--
Regards,
Feri.
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