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Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:34:49 +0300 From: "Eilon Greenstein" <eilong@...adcom.com> To: "David Miller" <davem@...emloft.net> cc: "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, "Yitchak Gertner" <yitchak.gertner@...adcom.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] bnx2x: EEH recovery fix On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 12:47 -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: "Eilon Greenstein" <eilong@...adcom.com> > Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 03:22:32 -0700 > > > The EEH mechanism caused a fatal error when using the bnx2x since > > the driver attempted accessing the device after it was reset by the > > EEH. This patch sets a proper unload when EEH error is detected > > without accessing the device. > > > > Since the current implementation causes a fatal error, I ask that > > you will consider applying this patch. > > What user has run into and reported this failure, and is it > a regression compared to 2.6.26? IBM found it on PPC and it was more obvious with the DMA mapping violation. It is broken in the same way on 2.6.26 as well. > > That is the criteria for my putting this patch in now. > > Since EEH triggers are an exceedingly corner case error condition, > this puts this patch even less valid to go in outside of the merge > window. > If you cannot accept it into 2.6.27, I will re-send it into net-next. Please let me know. Thanks, Eilon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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