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Message-ID: <02388deb-0a06-95ae-1aac-b39c108fc2e7@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 14 Mar 2019 19:08:39 +0100
From:   Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
To:     VDR User <user.vdr@...il.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: r8169 driver from kernel 5.0 crashing

On 14.03.2019 16:10, VDR User wrote:
>> Thanks for the additional info and for testing 4.20.15.
>> To rule out that the issue is caused by a regression in network or
>> some other subsystem: Can you take the r8169.c from 4.20.15 and test
>> it on top of 5.0?
>> Meanwhile I'll look at the changes in the driver between 4.20 and 5.0.
> 
> Sure, no problem! I'll copy the driver & recompile now actually.
> Hopefully there aren't a ton of changes to r8169.c to sift through and
> the cause isn't good at hiding itself!
> 
I checked the driver changes new in 5.0 and there are very few
functional changes. You could try to revert the following:

5317d5c6d47e ("r8169: use napi_consume_skb where possible")

> Thanks,
> Derek
> 
Heiner

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