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From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: John Ronciak <john.ronciak@gmail.com>
Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>,
	kus Kusche Klaus <kus@keba.com>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, john.ronciak@intel.com,
	ganesh.venkatesan@intel.com, jesse.brandeburg@intel.com,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Subject: Re: My vote against eepro* removal
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 22:56:53 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1137815814.3241.138.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56a8daef0601201801s6f8c3b79xcc06aaacc430309d@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 18:01 -0800, John Ronciak wrote:
> There is a timer routine in the eepro100 driver which does the check
> for link as well as a check for on of the hang conditions (with
> work-around).  It does the check for link in a different way than
> e100.  e100 uses mii call where eepro100 does it manually.  Another
> difference is that eepro100 doesn't get stats unless called by the
> system.  It's not in the timer routine at all.
> 
> Can we try a couple of things? 1) just comment out all the check for
> link code in the e100 driver and give that a try and 2) just comment
> out the update stats call and see if that works.  These seem to be the
> differences and we need to know which one is causing the problem.

Heh, FWIW, Microsoft found this exact same bug with 2 different chipsets
in their latency testing (see section 4.4):

http://research.microsoft.com/~mbj/papers/tr-98-29.html

Lee


  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-21  3:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-20  9:37 My vote against eepro* removal kus Kusche Klaus
2006-01-20  9:55 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-01-21  0:40   ` Lee Revell
2006-01-21  1:19     ` John Ronciak
2006-01-21  1:30       ` Lee Revell
2006-01-21  2:01         ` John Ronciak
2006-01-21  3:56           ` Lee Revell [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-01-24  7:38 kus Kusche Klaus
2006-01-23 11:01 kus Kusche Klaus
2006-01-23 20:23 ` Jesse Brandeburg
2006-01-20 11:27 kus Kusche Klaus
2006-01-20 10:51 kus Kusche Klaus
2006-01-20 11:05 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-01-20 10:19 kus Kusche Klaus
2006-01-20 11:02 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-01-21  0:45 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-19 10:26 kus Kusche Klaus
2006-01-19 16:20 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-01-19 17:16   ` John Ronciak
2006-01-19 19:09 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-01-19 22:57   ` Steven Rostedt
2006-01-19 10:08 kus Kusche Klaus
2006-01-19  7:19 kus Kusche Klaus
2006-01-19  7:24 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-19  7:42 ` Arjan van de Ven

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