Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: oh woe, oh woe, oh woe is me... [2.0.34p16 + 3com] | Date | Tue, 2 Jun 1998 23:58:51 +0100 (BST) |
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> I suspect that a large part of this this problem is that you can add a route > to a card that's down: if the interface is down, if might be removed at any > timed. (Was this added by someone that likes the BSD semantics? It doesn't > work with modules!)
Its a 2.1.x bug. Its on the fix list. 2.0.x should be preventing this occuring properly. Basically the intended path is
ifconfig down [drop routes] [driver flushes all its buffers if it can] MOD_DEC_USE returns
I guess some bus master cards might need to wait for the next interrupt to drop the usage count
> I've gotten many good reports about the reliability of the current driver > with both the 3c905 and 3c905B. There always at least one person that will > swear up-and-down that the driver has a problem when something else in their > system is actually the problem. I don't know how many times I have sent a
There are definitely problems with the 3c59x/3c90x driver. My 3c59x is rock solid in one box and not in another for example
> one-line "Don't use 'gated'" response to angry messages about my drivers.
Which is unfortunate since eepro100 has real bugs gated shows up, and you reply with your stock error.
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