Re: [PATCH] Fix kernel unaligned access with r8169 on sparc64

2007-07-10 Thread Francois Romieu
Francois Romieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : [...] > - try http://www.fr.zoreil.com/people/francois/backport/r8169/20070604-00 > It is a backport against 2.6.18 which should bring you quite close to > 2.6.23-git wrt r8169. Regarding the backport option, it was initially more a compiled-ok-untested-

Re: [PATCH] Fix kernel unaligned access with r8169 on sparc64

2007-07-10 Thread Francois Romieu
Philip Craig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : [...] > Try the patches at http://www.fr.zoreil.com/linux/kernel/2.6.x/2.6.22-rc6/ > I think patches 0012 and/or 0017 will fix this. They should but they will not apply directly against 2.6.18-something. Florian, can you consider one of the option below: - try c

Re: [PATCH] Fix kernel unaligned access with r8169 on sparc64

2007-07-09 Thread Philip Craig
Florian Fainelli wrote: > Hi all, > > When using the r8169 gigabit ethernet network driver under a Sun Entreprise > 450, you will encounter a lot of kernel unaligned access on ip_rcv and > ip_fast_csum. The full report is available here : > http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist%40lists.d

Re: [PATCH] Fix kernel unaligned access with r8169 on sparc64

2007-07-09 Thread Florian Fainelli
Few things about this patch. It's pretty quick and dirty, more experienced people with a better knowledge of the ip stack would certainly do better. Though the problem was reported with Debian's 2.6.18 kernel, it is also present in the 2.6.22-rc6 version. Without the patch, I can hardly achieve

[PATCH] Fix kernel unaligned access with r8169 on sparc64

2007-07-06 Thread Florian Fainelli
Hi all, When using the r8169 gigabit ethernet network driver under a Sun Entreprise 450, you will encounter a lot of kernel unaligned access on ip_rcv and ip_fast_csum. The full report is available here : http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist%40lists.debian.org/msg363433.htm The followi