netdev - Re: 2.6.20-rc1 sky2 problems (regression?)

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Message-ID: <20061218084440.189a77e4@freekitty>
Date:	Mon, 18 Dec 2006 08:44:40 -0800
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...l.org>
To:	Alex Romosan <romosan@...orax.lbl.gov>
Cc:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.20-rc1 sky2 problems (regression?)

On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:24:59 -0800
Alex Romosan <romosan@...orax.lbl.gov> wrote:

> Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...l.org> writes:
> 
> > I fixed a bunch of stuff (see ChangeLog) and made a 2.6.19 or later
> > version see:
> > 	http://developer.osdl.org/shemminger/prototypes/sk98lin-8.41.tar.gz
> >
> > It is too noisy in the console log, because it shows how many times
> > the driver dope slaps itself senseless...  Basically every 250ms when
> > it is idle it resets, sorry it's the kind of code you right to "make it work"
> > and ship it which is why vendor drivers suck.
> 
> i am running now with your fixed version. indeed, it is very noisy, i
> get a constant stream of:
> 
> kernel: eth0: Attempting recovery
> kernel: eth0: receiver stuck?
> 
> but it works. let's see how long it takes to fill up the root
> partition... :-(
> 

I would comment the message out.  I added it to see how often the recovery
was triggering..

-- 
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...l.org>
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