netdev - Re: r8169 patches

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Date:	Fri, 29 Jun 2007 01:50:47 +0200
From:	Soren Hansen <soren@...ntu.com>
To:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: r8169 patches

On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 11:10:37PM +0200, Francois Romieu wrote:
> > I have an Asrock ConRoe945G-DVI motherboard with a RTL8111/8168B in
> > it.  The stock r8159 driver locks up from time to time. I've
> > described it here: https://launchpad.net/bugs/121815 . The patchset
> > at http://www.fr.zoreil.com/linux/kernel/2.6.x/2.6.22-rc3/ seems to
> > fix it.  Can you explain why the patchset is not in the mainline
> > kernel?
> 1. thanks for the report

Thanks for providing the patch!

> 2. increase net.core.wmem_max, ping -f -q -l xx -s yy with xx and yy
>    big enough and the driver will _still_ stop receiving/transmitting :o(

Oh, dear.

> 3. if I take the time to write a nice message to tell you why, it will
>    delay me:
>    - publishing an updated patchset against -rc6 that can handle davem's
>      git-net with minor pain for akpm
>    - preparing a serie for Jeff
>    - answering the rot^Wpending r8169 reports

Thanks for taking time to responding anyway!

The reason I asked was that I was hoping the response would be that the
patchset had no know regressions, but still lacked testing. In that
case, I would have discussed its inclusion in our (Ubuntu's) alpha
releases with our kernel team, but if you feel you're on track already,
I'll stop annoying you. :)

Thanks for your time.

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