On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 09:36:58AM -0600, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: > On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 09:26:49AM -0500, Daniel Ellard wrote: > > > > Something slightly broke the em (gigabit ethernet) driver between > > 4.6.2p4 and 4.6.2p6, and I'm trying to figure what the change was so I > > can back it out on my machine. In 4.6.2p6 almost everything works, > > but programs that push the device (such as netperf) can hang. The > > same program running on other ethernet devices (fxp, xl) works fine. > > This happens on several machines, and they were all running correctly > > before I updated them, so I doubt that it is a hardware problem. > > > > I don't see any changes for the em driver source itself between p4 and > > p6, and the announced differences between these patch levels don't > > look related, but something must have changed. > > It seems awfully unlikely that the changes between 4.6.2p4 and 4.6.2p6 > have anything to do with your problem. I think you are probably barking > up the wrong tree. > > > Is there a > > straightforward way to track down all the source code differences > > between p4 and p6 (or any arbitrary pair of patchlevels)? > > Check out the RELENG_4_6 branch. Then run e.g. > > cvs -q diff -j 'RELENG_4_6:2002/10/28' -j 'RELENG_4_6:2003/01/08'
Argh.. this is "the third, obvious solution" that I missed in my other mail :) The fact that the branches are not tagged does not prevent a cvs diff, of course it doesn't! G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 If the meanings of 'true' and 'false' were switched, then this sentence wouldn't be false.
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