netdev - Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 10473] New: Infinite loop "b44: eth0: powering down PHY"

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Message-Id: <200804212021.06367.mb@bu3sch.de>
Date:	Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:21:06 +0200
From:	Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de>
To:	"Nelson A. de Oliveira" <naoliv@...il.com>
Cc:	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org,
	"Gary Zambrano" <zambrano@...adcom.com>
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 10473] New: Infinite loop "b44: eth0: powering down PHY"

On Monday 21 April 2008 20:14:44 Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote:
> This one is probably 2.6.23.
> After some time the system continued to boot, but without network interface.
> So marked it as bad.

That probably was a mistake

> What else can I do, please?

You can try latest git. I was told it has a feature
to tell bisect "I don't know" instead of "good" or "bad".
This can be used if a test kernel doesn't compile, or does
fail because of some other bug.

You can also manually bisect the stuff between your known-good
version of b44 and the bad one. There were only a couple of patches.
You can extract them with git and revert them one by one and see
when it does start working again.
I think it was something like 5 patches or so. Nothing too time consuming.

-- 
Greetings Michael.
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