On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 02:01:33PM +1100, Nathan Williams wrote: > 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? I am queuing this commit to the 3.5 kernel as well, and I believe it could also be added to the 3.4 kernel (Cc'ing Greg). Cheers, -- Luis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html