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Date:	Sat, 7 May 2011 20:26:32 +0200
From:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
To:	Tom Goetz <tom.goetz@...tualcomputer.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: For the netdev list

Tom Goetz <tom.goetz@...tualcomputer.com> :
> We recently obtained a new a Lenovo Edge 0578-CTO. The r8169 driver causes
> instability in the system on this machine. The problem is that in
> rtl8169_rx_interrupt (status & 0x00001FFF) returns values less than four

This is unexpected. :o(

[...]
> For a work around we've added a patch to drop packets when we see this
> condition. I have attached lspci -vvv for this device and a patch for the
> work around we're using.

Thank you for debugging.

Can you grep for the XID of the device in the kernel's dmesg and specify
a bit of context for the problem (MTU ? features enabled through ethtool ?
kernel version ?) ?

-- 
Ueimor

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