Bug 186282

Summary:	Changes on 2.6.23 git for sky2 driver backport to gs
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Luis Medinas (RETIRED) <metalgod>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo Kernel Bug Wranglers and Kernel Maintainers <kernel>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	normal	CC:	ken69267
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	2.6.22 patch patch

Description Luis Medinas (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-07-23 00:51:02 UTC

Hi

I have a request to a backport to stable gs. Looks like the git-10 fixed the sky2 driver issues it would be awesome to have it on our gs. Sky2 driver could be found on macbooks.

Thanks

Comment 1 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-07-23 01:13:08 UTC

Which issues in particular?

Comment 2 Kenneth Prugh (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-07-23 14:52:58 UTC

The new version of sky2 found in 2.6.23 fixes the problem of my Marvell NIC randomly dropping connection under load. I would be forced to rmmod && modprobe sky2 to bring the interface back to life.

Comment 3 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-07-24 23:10:00 UTC

Created attachment 125937 [details, diff]
2.6.22 patch

Please apply this patch against 2.6.22 and see if things improve

Comment 4 Luis Medinas (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-07-25 15:25:58 UTC

Daniel i'm unable to test right now because i left my macbook at home but next week i'll test the patch thanks for your work.

Comment 5 Kenneth Prugh (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-07-25 16:06:55 UTC

I applied the patch to Gentoo-sources-2.6.22-r1 and sky2 still failed.

What I've observed is in the transition of .22 to .23 sky2 got a version bump (1.15 to 1.16 I believe) and was marked unexperimental. Seems to be a lot of changes as well searching the git for "sky2", and I believe the changes are from July 9th and onwards. I wish I could be of more help but I know nothing of back porting and kernels. 

Thanks

Comment 6 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-07-27 02:03:40 UTC

Created attachment 126105 [details, diff]
patch

Comment 7 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-07-27 02:05:04 UTC

There aren't many relevant changes between 2.6.22 and 2.6.23-rc1, it's just a matter of finding the one(s) that fix your problem. Please confirm again that 2.6.23-rc1 is definitely fixed, because otherwise this is a waste of time.

Assuming 2.6.23-rc1 is definitely working fine, please apply the 2nd patch I attached above in addition to the one I posted earlier, and see if it helps.

Comment 8 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-08-22 13:28:02 UTC

see above comments