Somewhere between 3.17.0-rc3 and 3.17.0-rc5 I started seeing dropped ssh
connections to a couple of test servers with dual AthlonMP (32-bit) and
3C90x family of NICs (3Com Corporation 3c980-C 10/100baseTX NIC
[Python-T] (rev 78) in one server and 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M
[Tornado] (rev 78) in the other server). Bisect leads to the following
commit:
98ea232cf63961fad734cc8c5e07e8915ec73073 is the first bad commit
commit 98ea232cf63961fad734cc8c5e07e8915ec73073
Author: Neil Horman [off-list ref]
Date: Thu Sep 4 06:13:38 2014 -0400
3c59x: avoid panic in boomerang_start_xmit when finding page address:
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Meelis Roos (mroos@linux.ee)