> Any chance to convince the alien who took control of Jeff's libata queue to
> push:
> 
> r8169: synchronization and balancing when the device is closed
> 
> (1.1982.1.58 ?)
> 
> Test case on current 2.6.11-rc4:
> - ifconfig ethX 10.0.0.1 up
> - ifconfig ethX down
> - ifconfig ethX 10.0.0.1 up
>   -> Rx does not work any more
> - ifconfig ethX down
>   -> command hangs


Agree it needs fixing, but I actually think the rx-offset stuff is more 
urgent than this.  For the future, it would be useful for both of us to 
have separate r8169-fixes and r8169-cleanups queues.

Anyway, here it is:

[see attached]