From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753264AbXDDUGo (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Apr 2007 16:06:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753922AbXDDUGo (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Apr 2007 16:06:44 -0400 Received: from vitelus.com ([63.99.9.247]:36962 "EHLO vitelus.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752347AbXDDUGm (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Apr 2007 16:06:42 -0400 Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 13:06:04 -0700 From: Aaron Lehmann To: Francois Romieu Cc: Andi Kleen , Jim Paris , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Silent corruption with r8169 Message-ID: <20070404200603.GX15189@vitelus.com> References: <20070401012736.GT15189@vitelus.com> <20070401030315.GA24080@jim.sh> <20070401043905.GV15189@vitelus.com> <20070404184504.GB7814@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070404184504.GB7814@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 08:45:04PM +0200, Francois Romieu wrote: > > [adding netdev] > > [meta-comment: I wish people wouldn't use such unnecessarily broad subjects > > -- how is it the x86-64 port's or AMD's fault when you have broken hardware? > > Would anybody write "Silent corruption on i386" or "Silent corruption > > on Intel" or "Silent corruption on Linux"?] > > I hope you feel better now that I changed the subject. > > Aaron, I see no clear suspect between 2.6.20.1 and current -git > that could explain nor fix a corruption in the r8169 driver. > > Can you apply on top of latest 2.6.21-rc5-git the patches available at > http://www.fr.zoreil.com/linux/kernel/2.6.x/2.6.21-rc5/r8169-20070402 > > 000[12]-r8169-foo-bar.patch have been committed a few minutes ago: you > should check if they apply or not. I'll try to get to testing this, but I'm wondering if people may have misunderstood my original post. I don't get any corruption over Ethernet; it's just corruption on the filesystem during certain load patterns that involve the Realtek ethernet card. Aaron