Its hard for me to believe that you would think that there is no indication of the driver being actively supported. Take a look at the revision history in the forcedeth.c file. There have been 18 revisions in less then a year timeframe.
Please file a bug in bugzilla, thats the intended use of that system. -----Original Message----- From: Eric W. Biederman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 12:51 PM To: Ayaz Abdulla Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org; Natalie Protasevich; Lew Glendenning; kevin vanmaren Subject: Re: [PATCH] forcedeth: move config to gigabit menu "Ayaz Abdulla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is the bugzilla bug number for that issue? I don't think there is a bugzilla number as there was no indication that the driver was actively supported, in which case the practical solution is generally to dig in and fix a problem rather than whine about it in bugzilla. Natalie Protasevich has more details, as she has been actively working on investigating and fixing this problem. But the here is a summary to start with. Using the supermicro h8dce motherboard with the ck804 chipset. We frequently encounter an issue where when booting a cluster 1/2 to 1/3 of the nodes don't receive packets, using the forcedeth driver in 2.6.15. Interrupts are received, but never an rx interrupt. It takes cycling the power on the machine for things to start working. With a couple of tweaks Natalie has gotten the failure rate down to 1 node in 16 but that is still horribly bad. > I will work on clearing up some of those names. Thanks. > -----Original Message----- > From: Eric W. Biederman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 9:58 AM > To: Ayaz Abdulla > Cc: Stephen Hemminger; "Manfred Spraul <[EMAIL PROTECTED], Jeff > Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"@osdl.org; netdev@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: [PATCH] forcedeth: move config to gigabit menu > > > "Ayaz Abdulla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Can we remove "Reverse Engineered" and "(EXPERIMENTAL)" now? > > Can we get better bit names in the driver? > Having unknown xyz in half of the names is scare? > Can we have some help fixing the problem where the on some boots > the driver cannot receive packets? > > Or perhaps can Nvidia just document their nic some of > the rest of us can fix the driver? > > So far this is not a solid driver. > > Eric Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
