Lukas Hejtmanek wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 09:40:08AM -0800, Kok, Auke wrote:
>>> I'm afraid, I'm missing the point as you have stated that in-kernel drivers
>>> have problem with suspicious board hang...
>> my mistake, sorry for that confusion.
>>
>> the fake hangs on 82562/6 devices occur on 10mbit link only. You can check
>> in the
>> code for a line that says:
>>
>> adapter->tx_timeout_factor = 8;
>>
>> change that number to 16 to cope with the problem on 10mbit link partners.
>> However this won't fix the issue on 100mbit partners and we need to
>> investigate that if that is the case.
>
> 100mbit is the issue in my case.
>
can you see if your problem goes away with this patch?
---
e1000: increase tx timeout factor for 100mbit speeds
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
diff --git a/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c b/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c
index b7c3070..2e46a15 100644
--- a/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c
@@ -2601,7 +2601,7 @@ e1000_watchdog(unsigned long data)
case SPEED_100:
txb2b = 0;
netdev->tx_queue_len = 100;
- /* maybe add some timeout factor ? */
+ adapter->tx_timeout_factor = 4;
break;
}
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