Re: 2.6.21 known regressions (v2) (for -stable team)

From: Håkan Lindqvist
Date: Mon Apr 30 2007 - 18:35:39 EST


On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 14:30 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > Subject : 2.6.21: sky2 "hw csum failure" problem
> > References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/28/105
> > Submitter : Håkan Lindqvist <lindqvist@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Status : unknown
> >
>
> This is not a "regression" it is a bug, that has shown up for
> some users for quite a while, see:
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7579
>
>

It's not a regression in 2.6.21, but it is a regression as there is an
earlier kernel version where the sky2 driver works properly with this
card.


To me it doesn't really matter which way the problem is classified. I'm
just hoping that there will be a chance of moving past 2.6.16 on this
machine at some point.


Regards,
Håkan Lindqvist

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