netdev - Re: [bisected] tg3 broken in 3.18.0?

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Date:	Fri, 12 Dec 2014 20:18:31 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	nholland@...ys.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [bisected] tg3 broken in 3.18.0?

From: Nils Holland <nholland@...ys.org>
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 02:14:08 +0100

> Ok folks,
> 
> I now took the time to bisect the issue that killed the tg3 network
> interface on one of my boxes in 3.18.0. Beside me, at least one other
> person was affected, although we also have a confirmed report of
> another person using tg3 without issues under 3.18.0.
> 
> My bisect exercise suggests that the following commit is the culprit:
> 
> 89665a6a71408796565bfd29cfa6a7877b17a667 (PCI: Check only the Vendor
> ID to identify Configuration Request Retry)
> 
> In case that rings a bell for anyone, I'd be more than glad to hear
> about it! Otherwise, while I'm no expert at this, I'll do some more
> investigations tomorrow. It's gotten kind of late during bisecting and
> I'm off for some sleep now. ;-)

You definitely need to bring this up with the author of that change
and the relevent list for the PCI subsystem and/or linux-kernel.
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