On Thu, 2013-11-21 at 14:18 -0500, David Miller wrote: > From: Nathan Williams <nathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 14:01:33 +1100 > > > Hi Ben, > > > > I have a customer who has experienced issues with Debian Wheezy (Kernel > > 3.2.51) and the 8139cp driver: > > > > Upgrading to wheezy was even more disastrous with the kernel reporting > > "8139cp 0000:00:0a.0: eth0: Transmit timeout". Once the ethernet > > adaptor timed out only a reboot would fix it. > > > > I sent him a module with a patch from the following commit applied: > > > > commit 01ffc0a7f1c1801a2354719dedbc32aff45b987d > > Author: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Date: Sat Nov 24 12:11:21 2012 +0000 > > > > 8139cp: re-enable interrupts after tx timeout > > > > Recovery doesn't work too well if we leave interrupts disabled... > > > > Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@xxxxxxxxx> > > Acked-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > The customer has now confirmed that his problem has been fixed. > > Can we please have this commit brought across to 3.2.y? > > No objections from me. I've added this to the queue. Thanks, all. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Teamwork is essential - it allows you to blame someone else.
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