Re: [PATCH] sky2: revert pci express extensions

2006-10-09 Thread Matthias Hentges
Hello Stephen, Am Montag, den 09.10.2006, 14:40 -0700 schrieb Stephen Hemminger: The pci express error handling extensions don't work unless PCI access is via mmconfig. Otherwise, all accesses to pci config registers greater than 256 fail. Since the sky2 driver has other ways of getting to

Re: sky2 (was Re: 2.6.18-mm2)

2006-10-08 Thread Matthias Hentges
Hi Stephen, I believe I have identified the problem. The freeze only happens when your debug patch to work around sky2 PCIe error messages is applied. Without your patch (attached) I get _tons_ of error messages and the NIC dies every few seconds / minutes (reproduceable!), but the system

Re: sky2 (was Re: 2.6.18-mm2)

2006-10-07 Thread Matthias Hentges
Hello Stephen, Am Dienstag, den 03.10.2006, 20:26 -0700 schrieb Stephen Hemminger: [...] while the above patch indeed removes the error messages from my previous mail, I have since seen random but reproduceable freezes of the box in question. I believe they are sky2 related since the

Re: sky2 (was Re: 2.6.18-mm2)

2006-10-03 Thread Matthias Hentges
Hello Stephen, Am Donnerstag, den 28.09.2006, 16:19 -0700 schrieb Stephen Hemminger: Here is the debug patch I sent to the first reporter of the problem. I know what the offset is supposed to be, so if the PCI subsystem is wrong, this will show. --- sky2.orig/drivers/net/sky2.c

Re: sky2 (was Re: 2.6.18-mm2)

2006-09-29 Thread Matthias Hentges
) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ The annoying messages are gone =) Attached is a complete dmesg of a fresh boot. Thanks for your time. -- Matthias Hentges My OS: Debian SID. Geek by Nature, Linux by Choice dmesg_2.6.18-mm2-sky2-patched.txt.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data signature.asc