Re: 2.6.14-mm2

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Reuben Farrelly <reuben-lkml@reub.net> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> 
> On 11/11/2005 5:35 p.m., Andrew Morton wrote:
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.14/2.6.14-mm2/
> > 
> > - reiser4 seems to be broken when built as a module (due, I assume, to a
> >   reiser4-specific kbuild change).  CONFIG_REISER4_FS=y will be needed.
> > 
> > - New git tree git-cfq.patch - CFQ I/O scheduler updates from Jens
> > 
> > - The git-pcmcia tree has been reinstated
> > 
> > - git-audit and the several -mm fixups to it have been dropped for now - it's
> >   undergoing a bit of churn.
> > 
> > - Numerous subsystem updates.  Notably more v4l work.
> 
> Network is a no-go for me:
> 
> [root@tornado ~]# /etc/init.d/network restart
> e100: 0000:06:03.0: e100_eeprom_load: EEPROM corrupted
> e100: probe of 0000:06:03.0 failed with error -11
> sky2 0000:04:00.0: unsupported chip type 0xff
> sky2: probe of 0000:04:00.0 failed with error -95

At a guess I'd say we didn't power the NIC up.

Could you please generate full dmesg output for good and bad kernels?

Also `lspci -vvxx -s 06:03.0' to have a look at the card's config space.

> Both drivers worked under 2.6.14-rc5-mm1, but failed with 2.6.14-mm2.  I also 
> re-tested against 2.6.14-mm1 and this problem also occurs there (I didn't get 
> to test this this far with -mm1, had too many problems with other things and 
> been having other hassles such as dsl connection).

Are you able to test just
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.14/2.6.14-mm2/broken-out/linus.patch ?

> Somehow I doubt that these two cards are both genuinely faulty..........I can 
> swap out with another e100 if need be.

Yeah.   You could try eepro100.c, perhaps.