From owner-freebsd-current Thu Aug 1 17:28:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA07767 for current-outgoing; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 17:28:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from prozac.neuron.net (prozac.neuron.net [165.254.1.213]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA07746 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 17:27:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from amir@localhost) by prozac.neuron.net (8.7.5/8.6.12) id UAA07308; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 20:37:29 -0400 (EDT) From: "Amir Y. Rosenblatt" Message-Id: <199608020037.UAA07308@prozac.neuron.net> Subject: Re: if_ep.c driver brokeness (was Re: 3Com (589b) troubles) To: imb@asstdc.com.au (michael butler) Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 20:37:29 -0400 (EDT) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, nate@mt.sri.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199608011835.EAA00216@walkabout.asstdc.com.au> from "michael butler" at Aug 2, 96 04:35:06 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > The interesting thing is that there are also (few? many?) people where > > it actually improved things. Anyway, a better fix is certainly needed > > (one that satisfies all people, not just a few only), so back it out > > and suggest another one. :) > > What we _really_ need is for people to explain which cards do better with > which version .. at least then we might be able to use the appropriate IRQ > strategy according to which card is detected. Just having people stick their > hand up and say "it's busted" without specifying what broke is unhelpful, OK -- I have a 3c509B-TP. When the change was added, it began being very problematic. basically after a fairly small amount of data passes over it (like a single small web page or opening a mailbox index) it would stop passing data and start dishing out "no buffer space" messages. I would have posted earlier but the problem had already been mentioned. -Amir