Hello Stephen,
Am Montag, den 09.10.2006, 14:40 -0700 schrieb Stephen Hemminger:
> The pci express error handling extensions don't work unless PCI access is via
> mmconfig. Otherwise, all accesses to pci config registers greater than 256
> fail.
> Since the sky2 driver has other ways of getting
Am Sonntag, den 08.10.2006, 09:20 -0700 schrieb Stephen Hemminger:
> On Sun, 08 Oct 2006 15:41:45 +0200
> Matthias Hentges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
> > I have verified this behavior (works fine w/o debug patch, freezes with
> > patch applied) with:
> > - 2.6
Hi Stephen,
I believe I have identified the problem. The freeze only happens when
your debug patch to work around sky2 PCIe error messages is applied.
Without your patch (attached) I get _tons_ of error messages and the NIC
dies every few seconds / minutes (reproduceable!), but the system
recovers
Hello Stephen,
Am Dienstag, den 03.10.2006, 20:26 -0700 schrieb Stephen Hemminger:
[...]
> > while the above patch indeed removes the error messages from my previous
> > mail, I have since seen random but reproduceable freezes of the box in
> > question. I believe they are sky2 related since th
Hello Stephen,
Am Donnerstag, den 28.09.2006, 16:19 -0700 schrieb Stephen Hemminger:
> Here is the debug patch I sent to the first reporter of the problem.
> I know what the offset is supposed to be, so if the PCI subsystem is
> wrong, this will show.
>
> --- sky2.orig/drivers/net/sky2.c 2
.0: pci express error (0x10)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ >
The annoying messages are gone =)
Attached is a complete dmesg of a fresh boot.
Thanks for your time.
--
Matthias Hentges
My OS: Debian SID. Geek by Nature, Linux by Choice
dmesg_2.6.18-mm2-sky2-patched.txt.gz
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