Re: VIA Rhine ethernet driver bug (reprise...)

[Denis Vlasenko <vda@ilport.com.ua>]

[CCing maintaner]

On Monday 22 August 2005 20:29, Udo van den Heuvel wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> It appears that the VIA Rhine chipset has some sort of bug which shows
> up in both the standard Linux VIA-Rhine driver and the Rhinefet driver
> that VIA itself provides.
> 
> The difference is that the connection is dropped in case of the standard
> Linux driver for VIA Rhine but that the connection remains OK with the
> Rhinefet driver provided by VIA
> (http://www.viaarena.com/downloads/Source/rhinefet.tgz and other places
> on viaarena.com...).
> So VIA Rhinefet driver consumes more CPU but is also more stable.
> 
> I wrote about this issue before: http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/8/7/82 &
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/1/15/47 etc.
> I opened a bugzilla case: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5030
> 
> Who could find out why the standard Linux driver chokes and the Rhinefet
> driver doesn't? Who could fix this bug?

My suggestion was, and still is:

>Since it happens less than once a day, why not just add a code
>to reset the NIC completely in this case, like it is
>typically done in tx_timeout handlers of many NICs, and forget about it?

Do you see any problems in this approach?
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vda