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Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 22:29:50 +0200
From: Michael Riepe <michael.riepe@googlemail.com>
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To: David Dillow <dave@thedillows.org>
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Subject: Re: 2.6.27.19 + 28.7: network timeouts for r8169 and 8139too
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Hi!

David Dillow wrote:

> I was saying that I don't think the timeouts are necessarily the NIC
> chipset -- or the bridge chip for that matter --  having issues with
> MSI. There were some substantial IRQ handling changes in 2.6.28 and my
> bisection of the problem seem to lead into that code. I'll try this
> later tonight hopefully, but can you try to run 2.6.27 with the current
> r8169 driver and see if it is solid for you? That way it is using the
> same driver code, but avoids the IRQ changes.

Unfortunately, 2.6.27 won't build with r8169.c copied from 2.6.29.

-- 
Michael "Tired" Riepe <michael.riepe@googlemail.com>
X-Tired: Each morning I get up I die a little