On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 11:10:37PM +0200, Francois Romieu wrote: > > I have an Asrock ConRoe945G-DVI motherboard with a RTL8111/8168B in > > it. The stock r8159 driver locks up from time to time. I've > > described it here: https://launchpad.net/bugs/121815 . The patchset > > at http://www.fr.zoreil.com/linux/kernel/2.6.x/2.6.22-rc3/ seems to > > fix it. Can you explain why the patchset is not in the mainline > > kernel? > 1. thanks for the report
Thanks for providing the patch! > 2. increase net.core.wmem_max, ping -f -q -l xx -s yy with xx and yy > big enough and the driver will _still_ stop receiving/transmitting :o( Oh, dear. > 3. if I take the time to write a nice message to tell you why, it will > delay me: > - publishing an updated patchset against -rc6 that can handle davem's > git-net with minor pain for akpm > - preparing a serie for Jeff > - answering the rot^Wpending r8169 reports Thanks for taking time to responding anyway! The reason I asked was that I was hoping the response would be that the patchset had no know regressions, but still lacked testing. In that case, I would have discussed its inclusion in our (Ubuntu's) alpha releases with our kernel team, but if you feel you're on track already, I'll stop annoying you. :) Thanks for your time.
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