From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757728Ab3BGBRM (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Feb 2013 20:17:12 -0500 Received: from violet.fr.zoreil.com ([92.243.8.30]:50435 "EHLO violet.fr.zoreil.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757655Ab3BGBRJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Feb 2013 20:17:09 -0500 Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 01:46:35 +0100 From: Francois Romieu To: =?utf-8?B?SsO2cmc=?= Otte Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , "David S. Miller" , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [3.8-rc] regression: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0 (r8169): transmit queue 0 timed out Message-ID: <20130207004635.GA4025@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> References: <20130105093718.GA938@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> <20130105165735.GB4906@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Organisation: Land of Sunshine Inc. Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jörg Otte : [...] > To Summarize: Two net-regressions where introduced in v3.8 (driver r8169): > > 1) NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0 (r8169): transmit queue 0 timed out > was introduced by commit > e0c075577965d1c01b30038d38bf637b027a1df3 > ("r8169: enable ALDPS for power saving") Hayes Wang authored it. You should ask him why commit e0c075577965d1c01b30038d38bf637b027a1df3 sometimes chokes with the 8168evl. And you can ask him if there is a chance that the non-8168evl that are handled by the patch (mis-)behave the same too. -- Ueimor