Fwd: Gianfar driver crashes in Kernel v3.10

Thomas Hühn thomas at net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de
Fri Oct 11 19:59:34 EST 2013


Hi Claudiu,

> Does this show up on a half duplex (100Mb/s) link?

In my testsetup I always used 1GBit Ethernet connections, so no 100MBit tested yet.
Should I do so ?

> Could you provide following for the gianfar interface, on your setup:

sure: 
> # ethtool ethX
root at Bluse-home:~# ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
       Supported ports: [ ]
       Supported link modes:   1000baseT/Full 
       Supported pause frame use: No
       Supports auto-negotiation: No
       Advertised link modes:  1000baseT/Full 
       Advertised pause frame use: No
       Advertised auto-negotiation: No
       Speed: 1000Mb/s
       Duplex: Full
       Port: MII
       PHYAD: 0
       Transceiver: external
       Auto-negotiation: on
       Current message level: 0x0000003f (63)
                              drv probe link timer ifdown ifup
       Link detected: yes

> and
> # ethtool -d ethX | grep 500
> 
root at Bluse-home:~# ethtool -d eth0 | grep 500
0x0500:         00 00 00 3f 00 00 72 05 40 60 50 60 00 a1 f0 37 


> Is there any other indication before this Oops? Like a tx timeout WARN?
> 

Nothing there about any timeout.

Greetings Thomas

> Thanks,
> Claudiu
> 
> 
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