On Fri, Nov 28, 2025 at 7:15 AM Mark <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Why blame the NIC driver? Are you sure that the kernel hadn't crashed? > > Why blame the kernel? Are you sure that the NIC driver is completely > stable? > src/sys/dev/pci/if_re_pci.c is the same in 7.8 as it was in 7.7 and 7.6 (revision 1.59) and is unchanged in -current. Meanwhile, the kernel has had lots of changes, so it wouldn't be a bad guess. It's entirely reasonable to think that some other part of the system has failed to lock something correctly, and an interrupt causes a device driver to run, it discovers the issue, and panics. Blaming a device driver for reporting a problem it didn't cause would be a case of shooting the messenger. -ken
