Bug#508527: via-velocity.[ch] from 2.6.28 fixes the issue for me too

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 09:55:23PM +0000, Russell Howe wrote:
> I also experienced the same issue on a VIA EPIA SN motherboard.
> 
> Copying drivers/net/via-velocity.[ch] from 2.6.28 into the 2.6.26 tree
> seems to have fixed the issue and I have noticed no ill effects.
> 
> via-velocity oopses for me straight away with 2.6.26 - I think it is
> triggered by Debian's scripts bringing the interface up rather than when
> the module loads.
> 
> I will try to isolate the exact commit which fixes this issue.

Did you narrow this down or test whether the commit below fixes
the problem?
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=3c4dc7115dfdb9e0450b7a3b0649948f5356d4af

Cheers,
        Moritz