Messages in this thread | | | From | Oleg Verych <> | Subject | Re: sky2 driver causes kernel crash as of 2.6.18.1 | Date | Wed, 1 Nov 2006 15:57:41 +0000 (UTC) |
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On 2006-11-01, John Clark wrote: > I have been compiling kernels from 2.6.16.16 on to see if there is any > improvement > in the Sky2 driver. The most recent official kernel version, 2.6.18.1, > as of 10/31/06 > seems to still have problems. > > The crash debug splat indicates that the transmit routine was being > executed when > the final crash occured. But before the crash there were a series of > diagnostics from > the driver: > > NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth4: transmit time out > sky2 eth4: tx timeout > sky2 hardware hung? flushing > > messages. > > Is there any better driver in a 'unstable' kernel that someone has > tested sufficiently?
Well, try "unstable" 2.6.19-rc4. I'm not sure, but bug may be related to 7bd656d12119708b37414bf909ab2995473da818
Although, there are some sky2 updates in future 2.6.18.2, maybe they are related too. ____
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