Re: Silent corruption with r8169

From: Francois Romieu
Date: Wed Apr 04 2007 - 16:49:10 EST


Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@xxxxxxxxxxx> :
[...]
> I'll try to get to testing this, but I'm wondering if people may have
> misunderstood my original post. I don't get any corruption over
> Ethernet; it's just corruption on the filesystem during certain load
> patterns that involve the Realtek ethernet card.

It is too soon to label it a debug feature or a genuine bug in the
r8169 driver but at least there is a r8169 patchkit to help with
various annoyances (obscure bug on amd platform for instance).
It could make a difference.

The disk io + r8169 driver bugs can be very frustrating to debug :o/

--
Ueimor

Anybody got a battery for my Ultra 10 ?
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