Re: sky2 driver causes kernel crash as of 2.6.18.1

John Clark wrote:

I have been compiling kernels from 2.6.16.16 on to see if there is any
improvement
in the Sky2 driver. The most recent official kernel version, 2.6.18.1,
as of 10/31/06
seems to still have problems.

The crash debug splat indicates that the transmit routine was being
executed when
the final crash occured. But before the crash there were a series of
diagnostics from
the driver:

NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth4: transmit time out
sky2 eth4: tx timeout
sky2 hardware hung? flushing

messages.

Is there any better driver in a 'unstable' kernel that someone has
tested sufficiently?

Thanks
John Clark

I've been using sky2 v1.9 (in eg linux-2.6.19-rc3) on two sky2
platforms, running 100s of gigabytes via NFSv4 and CIFS without
problem. In earlier versions, I'd hit a race after a few GBs at high
load; Stephen Hemminger has done a great job.
-- 
Daniel J Blueman