Re: Intel em receive hang and possible pr #72970

On 8/31/06, Joe Holden <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Jack Vogel wrote:
> On 8/31/06, Rob Watt <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> After poking around in various group/pr postings the most similar problem
>> that we found was PR #72970.
>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=72970
>>
>> Does it seem that we are encountering that bug? Is that bug fixed in
>> 6.1-RELEASE, or is there an easy patch to 6.0-RELEASE (i.e. can we only
>> patch the em driver).
>
> That fix is only just into the STABLE code, so no, not in 6.1-RELEASE.
> You could take the tip of STABLE, but if you have only a 6.0 based
> system I know you are going to run into some backward incompatabililties.
> As a matter of fact I dont believe the STABLE tip will even build on
> RELEASE (something that I take issue with).
>
> Sounds like its at least possible this is your problem, worth setting up a
> system to test with I would say.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Jack
> Intel LAD
> _______________________________________________
> freebsd-net@xxxxxxxxxxx mailing list
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net
> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxx"
IF you want latest -STABLE you use stable, if you want code AS-IS when
it was released, you use RELEASE


I agree with that in the case of generic OS, but from the standpoint of a driver
developer/maintainer I hope you see why this is a problem, yes?

In the commercial world they dont want to upgrade a complete OS to get a
couple line bug fix in a driver, so making the driver backward compatible
WHEN POSSIBLE (and I know thats not always doable) is goodness.

Jack
_______________________________________________
freebsd-net@xxxxxxxxxxx mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxx"

Relevant Pages

  • cvs-src summary for May 31 - June 7
    ... You can get old summaries, and an HTML version of this one, at ... driver for Intel Ethernet cards, then the ndis driver, for emulation of ... Maxime Henrion changed the fxp driver to use the device sysctl tree, ... This bug is covered by `FreeBSD-SA-04:12.jailroute`_, ...
    (freebsd-current)
  • Re: monitor not vga compatible help
    ... > keyboard,I cant spell very well and it is taking me a long time to write ... > I dont think that what I wrote was so hard to understand but it was ... >>> compatible i dont have disc know that xp has this driver but i read ... >>> understand it it is a tft monitor proview i have been to the sight ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
  • Re: monitor not vga compatible help
    ... I dont think that what I wrote was so hard to understand but it was a ... >> compatible i dont have disc know that xp has this driver but i read ... >> understand it it is a tft monitor proview i have been to the sight ... > 1) Please learn how to post using the common nuances of written English. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
  • cvs-src summary for May 24-31
    ... Tony Ackerman committed the first release of the ixgb driver, ... Brooks Davis added support for a /etc/eui64 file, ... Oliver Eikemeier added a "-depth n" flag to find. ... Dag-Erling Smorgrav fixed a bug in the msync system call that permitted ...
    (freebsd-current)
  • cvs-src summary for January 4-10
    ... It is intended to help the FreeBSD community keep up with the fast-paced ... driver, for PS/2 mice. ... Ceri Davies is now a src committer, ... Important Bug Fixes ...
    (freebsd-current)