netdev - RE: [REGRESSION] e1000e stopped working [MANUALLY BISECTED]

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Date:	Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:23:10 -0600
From:	"Tantilov, Emil S" <emil.s.tantilov@...el.com>
To:	Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@...il.com>,
	"Kirsher, Jeffrey T" <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
CC:	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Allan, Bruce W" <bruce.w.allan@...el.com>,
	"Pieper, Jeffrey E" <jeffrey.e.pieper@...el.com>
Subject: RE: [REGRESSION] e1000e stopped working [MANUALLY BISECTED]

Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 12:58 +0300, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
>> On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 01:13 -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
>>> On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 15:48, Maxim Levitsky
>>> <maximlevitsky@...il.com> wrote: 
>>>> Did few guesses, and now I see that reverting the below commit
>>>> fixes the problem. 
>>>> 
>>>> "e1000e: Fix/cleanup PHY reset code for ICHx/PCHx"
>>>> e98cac447cc1cc418dff1d610a5c79c4f2bdec7f.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Best regards,
>>>>        Maxim Levitsky
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>> 
>>> Can you give us till Tuesday to respond?  I know that there are some
>>> additional e1000e patches in my queue, which may resolve the issue,
>>> but this weekend the power is down to do some infrastructure
>>> upgrades 
>>> which prevents us from doing any investigation.debugging until
>>> Tuesday.
>>> 
>> 
>> Sure.
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> 	Maxim Levitsky
>> 
> 
> Updates?

We are working on reproducing the issue. So far we have not seen the problem when testing with net-next.

I asked in previous email about some additional info from ethtool (-d, -e, -S) and kernel config. That would help us to narrow it down.

Thanks,
Emil