Bug#506419: high volumes of traffic kill forcedeth chip

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Ben Hutchings wrote:

> It *was* a real bug and you have no reason to believe it is not fixed.

Sure, it is possible that 6c2da9c or eb10a781 fixes this.  But I
really do suspect that it's not fixed.  I'd take at least 1:1 odds.

> New submitters are expected to look through existing bug reports.  The
> BTS can take over a minute to generate a summary of all reports in
> linux-2.6.

Yes, that is a problem.  Maybe linux-2.6 bugs could be split using
usertags (for networking, dri, etc) to lessen it?  Or maybe it's
possible to serve snapshots of the bug list as static HTML somewhere,
or to add some caching to debbugs to alleviate the underlying problem?

> If it is a real, live bug then it is important.  If not, it should be
> closed.  Changing the severity is just silly.

Ok, that makes sense to me.  Unfortunately, hardware-dependent bugs
are hard to debug.  I trust this particular bug submitter a great
deal, which is part of why I don't consider it a lost cause.

Anyway, you've done enough work on linux-2.6 that you should feel free
to do whatever you want.  Hopefully the above explanations make my
actions clearer, but if you want to close the bug again, I won't stop
you.

Regards,
Jonathan