netdev - Re: Realtek 8169 problems with net booting

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Message-ID: <20081129212830.GA5846@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com>
Date:	Sat, 29 Nov 2008 22:28:30 +0100
From:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Realtek 8169 problems with net booting

Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk> :
[...]
> Other symptoms: it kept trying to renegotiate the link every few seconds.

[...]
> Hang used to happen on the first incoming packet after boot, _but_ that
> didn't happen on each boot.

Ok, it is consistent with a dma at (more or less) random location.

Thanks for the report Al.

Can you send the "XID" line printed by the driver on recent kernels so
that I can figure the specific version of the chipset / PHY ?

Do not hurry, I am out for saturday's night.

-- 
Ueimor
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