Re: potential nasty bug in igb and ixgbe

2008-10-03 Thread Scott Long
I'll bite. Scott On Wed, 1 Oct 2008, Jack Vogel wrote: Jeff Roberson uncovered an issue that might be behind any number of possible problems. Our newer hardware (meaning those supported by the igb and ixgbe drivers) overwrites the buffer address in the RX descriptor with a variety of data in

potential nasty bug in igb and ixgbe

2008-10-01 Thread Jack Vogel
Jeff Roberson uncovered an issue that might be behind any number of possible problems. Our newer hardware (meaning those supported by the igb and ixgbe drivers) overwrites the buffer address in the RX descriptor with a variety of data in support of advanced features (see the relevant header files