Bug 9321

Summary: net: skge breakage on 2.6.24-rc1
Product: Drivers Reporter: Rafael J. Wysocki (rjwysocki)
Component: NetworkAssignee: Stephen Hemminger (stephen)
Status: CLOSED CODE_FIX    
Severity: normal CC: stephen
Priority: P1    
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Kernel Version: 2.6.24-rc1 Subsystem:
Regression: Yes Bisected commit-id:
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 9243    
Attachments: lspci of the skge machine
ver_linux output on the skge machine
kernel config of the skge machine

Description Rafael J. Wysocki 2007-11-07 14:27:33 UTC 
Subject         : net: skge breakage on 2.6.24-rc1
Submitter       : Heikki Orsila <shdl@zakalwe.fi>
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/7/281
Comment 1 Rafael J. Wysocki 2007-11-07 14:30:54 UTC 
Caused by:

commit 7fb7ac241162dc51ec0f7644d4a97b2855213c32
Author: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Commit: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>

    skge: fix ram buffer size calculation

http://git.kernel.org/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7fb7ac241162dc51ec0f7644d4a97b2855213c32
Comment 2 Heikki Orsila 2007-11-07 15:08:25 UTC 
Created attachment 13447 [details]
lspci of the skge machine
Comment 3 Heikki Orsila 2007-11-07 15:08:45 UTC 
Created attachment 13448 [details]
ver_linux output on the skge machine
Comment 4 Heikki Orsila 2007-11-07 15:09:06 UTC 
Created attachment 13449 [details]
kernel config of the skge machine
Comment 5 Heikki Orsila 2007-11-07 15:10:19 UTC 
And this documents how to reproduce the bug, and the hack which seems to fix the problem, although I have absolutely NO IDEA what happens there..

http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/7/284