Fwd: Gianfar driver crashes in Kernel v3.10
Claudiu Manoil
claudiu.manoil at freescale.com
Wed Oct 16 18:10:15 EST 2013
On 10/11/2013 11:59 AM, Thomas Hühn wrote:
> 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.
>
Please try the following patch:
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/283235/
It should help with your issue.
claudiu
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