Package: linux-image-2.6.18-5-amd64 Version: 2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch2 Severity: normal Tags: patch
The bnx2 ethernet driver occasionally produces pseudorandom statistics which can be seen in /proc/net/dev (such as rx byte counters mysteriously jumping by ~ 2^60). This is making things hard on our network statistics graphing applications, as this causes them to report incredibly enormous spikes of traffic that dwarf everything else in the graphs by many orders of magnitude. A patch to fix this has already gone into vanilla 2.6.22, and it's a fairly small, trivial patch that looks like it would backport easily. Any chance we can get this in an etch maintenance update of 2.6.18? This is the patch that went into 2.6.22 from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://lists.openwall.net/netdev/2007/06/04/81 Thanks, Brandon -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-amd64 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.18-5-amd64 depends on: ii coreutil 5.97-5.3 The GNU core utilities ii debconf 1.5.11 Debian configuration management sy ii e2fsprog 1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-2 ext2 file system utilities and lib ii initramf 0.85h tools for generating an initramfs ii module-i 3.3-pre4-2 tools for managing Linux kernel mo linux-image-2.6.18-5-amd64 recommends no packages. -- debconf information: linux-image-2.6.18-5-amd64/preinst/lilo-has-ramdisk: linux-image-2.6.18-5-amd64/postinst/create-kimage-link-2.6.18-5-amd64: true shared/kernel-image/really-run-bootloader: true linux-image-2.6.18-5-amd64/postinst/old-system-map-link-2.6.18-5-amd64: true linux-image-2.6.18-5-amd64/postinst/depmod-error-initrd-2.6.18-5-amd64: false linux-image-2.6.18-5-amd64/preinst/initrd-2.6.18-5-amd64: linux-image-2.6.18-5-amd64/postinst/bootloader-test-error-2.6.18-5-amd64: linux-image-2.6.18-5-amd64/preinst/elilo-initrd-2.6.18-5-amd64: true linux-image-2.6.18-5-amd64/postinst/kimage-is-a-directory: linux-image-2.6.18-5-amd64/postinst/depmod-error-2.6.18-5-amd64: false linux-image-2.6.18-5-amd64/preinst/bootloader-initrd-2.6.18-5-amd64: true linux-image-2.6.18-5-amd64/prerm/removing-running-kernel-2.6.18-5-amd64: true linux-image-2.6.18-5-amd64/preinst/already-running-this-2.6.18-5-amd64: linux-image-2.6.18-5-amd64/preinst/lilo-initrd-2.6.18-5-amd64: true linux-image-2.6.18-5-amd64/preinst/abort-install-2.6.18-5-amd64: linux-image-2.6.18-5-amd64/preinst/abort-overwrite-2.6.18-5-amd64: linux-image-2.6.18-5-amd64/preinst/failed-to-move-modules-2.6.18-5-amd64: linux-image-2.6.18-5-amd64/prerm/would-invalidate-boot-loader-2.6.18-5-amd64: true linux-image-2.6.18-5-amd64/postinst/bootloader-error-2.6.18-5-amd64: linux-image-2.6.18-5-amd64/postinst/old-initrd-link-2.6.18-5-amd64: true linux-image-2.6.18-5-amd64/preinst/overwriting-modules-2.6.18-5-amd64: true linux-image-2.6.18-5-amd64/postinst/old-dir-initrd-link-2.6.18-5-amd64: true -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
