netdev - Re: Problem with commit a0ee18b9b7d3847976c6fb315c06a34fb296de0e

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Date:	Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:50:35 +0300
From:	Ismail Dönmez <ismail@...dus.org.tr>
To:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Problem with commit a0ee18b9b7d3847976c6fb315c06a34fb296de0e

On Wednesday 25 April 2007 11:52:52 Ismail Dönmez wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tuesday 24 April 2007 00:23:13 Ismail Dönmez wrote:
> > On Tuesday 24 April 2007 00:17:40 Thomas Graf wrote:
> > > * Ismail D?nmez <ismail@...dus.org.tr> 2007-04-23 22:09
> > >
> > > > Yes I know the fix is in but I wondered why its creating such
> > > > problems with 2.6.18 kernel, guess it depends on some other commits.
> > >
> > > As long as you apply the complete patch including the additional
> > > sanity check for RTN_MAX it should work perfectly fine on 2.6.18.
> >
> > The sanity check part doesn't seem to apply to 2.6.18.
> >
> > > I can't think of any connection between the patch and the errors
> > > you are seeing.
> > >
> > > Are you absolutely sure the errors you see are directly connected
> > > to applying the patch?
> >
> > Yes actually I am but I'll re-test and see. Thanks.
>
> I was able to reproduce the same problem with Linus' GIT tree too. Since I
> started to see these after I applied the commit
> a0ee18b9b7d3847976c6fb315c06a34fb296de0e to 2.6.18 tree, there is a big
> possiblity that the commit is the culprit.
>
> I attach the relevant dmesg messages. Problem happened after 12 hours of
> uptime and and net connection gets stable again after 1-2 minutes.

Ignore this my laptop seems to be totally dying now including wireless card 
too. Sorry for the noise.

Regards,
ismail

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