Bug#531425: Re: Bug#531425: base: Loss of ethernet connectivity (bmac ethernet driver) after random amount of time

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:35:22PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:25:45AM +0200, Tor Arne Benjaminsen wrote:
> > Wed, 17 Jun 2009 Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> > 
> > >If this happens again, please run "ifconfig", save the output to a file,
> > >and send it to this bug.  This should show some useful statistics
> > >(assuming the driver updates them properly, which I haven't checked).
> > >
> > 
> > 
> > Just had the error occur again, this time after just maybe 10
> > minutes of uptime on the box. Here's the output from ifconfig:
> > 
> > 
> > eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:05:02:db:35:e4
> >           inet addr:10.0.0.50  Bcast:10.0.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
> >           inet6 addr: fe80::205:2ff:fedb:35e4/64 Scope:Link
> >           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> >           RX packets:4877 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> >           TX packets:2861 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> >           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> >           RX bytes:6738096 (6.4 MiB)  TX bytes:215799 (210.7 KiB)
> >           Interrupt:42 Base address:0xc000
> > 
> > lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
> >           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
> >           inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
> >           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
> >           RX packets:9 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> >           TX packets:9 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> >           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> >           RX bytes:1296 (1.2 KiB)  TX bytes:1296 (1.2 KiB)
> 
> Hi,
> I've browsed through the Linux kernel commits for that driver, but no
> patches have been commited which could fix such an error as the one
> seen. This might be an issue, which needs to be fixed upstream. Could
> you please install one of the snapshots (from "trunk"):
> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianKernel 
> 
> If you can reproduce the error with this kernel, please file a bug
> at http://bugzilla.kernel.org

Did you report this upstream or has it been fixed in more recent kernels?

Cheers,
        Moritz