netdev - Re: bnx2_poll panicking kernel

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Message-ID: <20080714212620.GA8503@orion.carnet.hr>
Date:	Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:26:20 +0200
From:	Josip Rodin <joy@...uzijast.net>
To:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>
Cc:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, mchan@...adcom.com,
	billfink@...dspring.com, bhutchings@...arflare.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, mirrors@...ian.org, devik@....cz
Subject: Re: bnx2_poll panicking kernel

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 11:22:23PM +0200, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:21:51PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 07:20:55PM +0200, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> ...
> > > BTW, I wonder how Josip's testing?
> > 
> > Do you want me to try out David's patch? I was hoping to get a definite okay
> > from someone before applying it, given that this is a production machine
> > for us and we do need it in *some* kind of an operational state.
> 
> Hmm... if you trust me more than David?! As a matter of fact, I thought
> it's under testing already, but since I've some doubts, I attach below
> my version of David's patch. IMHO, it looks safe, but never knows...

No (sorry :) but he did call his patch an "idiotic attempt", and asked you
guys for input, so I held back :)

> > I've got many more tens of kilobytes of logs from the previous debugging
> > patches, if you want I can send them over.
> 
> This debugging, I guess, shows corrupted data, but the reason is hard
> to find. David found one of possible reasons and it needs checking. I
> don't think this patch in any version can do more damage than doing
> nothing - unless you prefer to use Michael's patch to next kernels
> (BTW, don't remove this patch yet).

OK, I'll give it a whirl.

(Should I update to .26 at the same time, now that it went live in the
meantime?)

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