Re: rtl8169_get_stats seems to be adding random crap to rx_missed_errors count

From: Alex Bennee
Date: Sat Oct 11 2008 - 04:49:25 EST


On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 7:42 AM, Alex Bennee <kernel-hacker@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 10:27 PM, Bruno Prémont
> <bonbons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi Alex,
>>
>> This issue has already been reported in
>> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/9/235
>> and a patch exists.
>>
>> Could you verify that patch #0009 at URL below fixes the issue for you:
>> http://userweb.kernel.org/~romieu/r8169/2.6.27-rc9/20081007/
>
> I can confirm that patch works for me. I have further reviewed the
> code and it looks OK to me from here. Should I just forward the patch
> and tag it to the mailing list or is it now in a tree that gets picked
> up?