netdev - Re: kernel BUG in eth_alloc_tx_desc_index at drivers/net/mv643xx

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Message-ID: <7d01f9f00701100912kc6fb635wd863d9563b0eb328@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 10 Jan 2007 18:12:29 +0100
From:	"Thibaut VARENE" <T-Bone@...isc-linux.org>
To:	"Dale Farnsworth" <dale@...nsworth.org>
Cc:	"Jarek Poplawski" <jarkao2@...pl>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	mlachwani@...sta.com
Subject: Re: kernel BUG in eth_alloc_tx_desc_index at drivers/net/mv643xx_eth.c:1069!

On 1/9/07, Thibaut VARENE <T-Bone@...isc-linux.org> wrote:
> On 1/9/07, Dale Farnsworth <dale@...nsworth.org> wrote:
> >
> > Thank you Thibaut.  Please try the following patch:
> >
> > From: Dale Farnsworth <dale@...nsworth.org>
> >
> > Reserve one unused descriptor in the TX ring
> > to facilitate testing for when the ring is full.
>
> Dale,
>
> tried it and unfortunately:

Also, I don't know if you read that bit, but everytime I reboot the
box immediately after a crash, the NIC gets a bogus (always the same
it seems) MAC address, and I have to reboot one more time to get back
to the "normal" MAC address.

Dunno if that hints anything though.

HTH

-- 
Thibaut VARENE
http://www.parisc-linux.org/~varenet/
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