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SubjectRe: 2.6.12 breaks 8139cp
Pierre Ossman wrote:

>Ed Sweetman wrote:
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>>2.6.11-mm4 doesn't work. So i'm guessing 2.6.11 wont work either which
>>may be why backporting it's via fixes didn't do anything. I'm gonna
>>try vanilla and if that by some crazy chance works, then it'll be
>>fairly easy to see what change did it since mm has a nice Changelog.
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>2.6.11 works fine here so if you're having problems with it I'd say
>we're experiencing two different bugs.
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>Rgds
>Pierre
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It seems that whatever is causing the bug i'm seeing was a change that
involved the network driver/interrupt subsystem and not actually the
8139too driver, this was done at around 2.6.3-2.6.4. A NAPI patch that
was introduced at that time basically reverted the interrupt function
and removed the poll functions from the driver (via not enabling napi in
Kconfig). I have patched 2.6.12.1 with the NAPI patch and it works.
Now i just have a problem with messages about "Badness in __kfree_skb
at net/core/skbuff.c:290" coming from the changes i made in the 8139too
driver flooding my logs. (very bad but also helpful)

That narrows it down, but i was unable to clean up the kfree errors.
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