On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 09:32:55PM -0400, Dennis Nezic wrote:
You're right. About everything :). The freezes don't happen with 2.0. I miss the good blazing-fast old days, sometimes. They also don't seem to happen after I downgraded my kernel from 2.6.35-rc3 to 2.6.34. (Although now I have other networking problems -- nfs/scp/etc stalls :S).
From what I saw from the patches, they almost rewrote the entire driver -- but
This doesn't surprise me one bit. If I can recall correctly, when kernel-2.6.30 was released, somebody submitted a few firmware patches in for a specific network adapter (whose driver is in the kernel). The patches were accepted into the 2.6.30 version breaking the driver at first, then later wake on LAN functions. the author did state he should have caught the bugs. The bugs have long since been fixed, but it does bring up an issue concerning kernel stability. However, I also realize if they try improving the quality of the kernel drivers, you might not see the patch integration until 2.7 or 2.8! Might also want to check out remote GDB to debug the kernel. -- Roger http://rogerx.freeshell.org/