netdev - Re: Silent corruption with r8169

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Date:	Wed, 4 Apr 2007 22:45:53 +0200
From:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
To:	Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@...elus.com>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, Jim Paris <jim@...n.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Silent corruption with r8169

Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@...elus.com> :
[...]
> I'll try to get to testing this, but I'm wondering if people may have
> misunderstood my original post. I don't get any corruption over
> Ethernet; it's just corruption on the filesystem during certain load
> patterns that involve the Realtek ethernet card.

It is too soon to label it a debug feature or a genuine bug in the
r8169 driver but at least there is a r8169 patchkit to help with
various annoyances (obscure bug on amd platform for instance).
It could make a difference.

The disk io + r8169 driver bugs can be very frustrating to debug :o/

-- 
Ueimor

Anybody got a battery for my Ultra 10 ?
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