On Sun, 2012-03-11 at 14:36 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> severity 644906 important
> tags 644906 + upstream patch fixed-upstream
> found 644906 linux-2.6/2.6.32-39squeeze1
> quit
>
> Hi Holger,
>
> Holger Jeromin wrote:
>
> >> The patch ("e1000e: workaround for packet drop on 82579 at 100Mbps")
> >> hit mainline in v3.1-rc4. Are squeeze 2.6.32.y kernels affected?
> >
> > As you can see in my smokeping there is still a paket loss in my
> > internal network:
> > http://www.katur.de/smokeping/smokeping.cgi?target=Local.Telefon
> >
> > It would be nice, if you can fix the problem with a new kernel for
> > squeeze, since the paket loss is not nice for VoIP-Calls :-)
>
> Please test the attached patch, following instructions from [1].
>
> Ben: it looks like there have been 31 commits to the e1000e driver
> from 2.6.38 to 3.0.y. The patches marked with '+' seem like
> candidates for inclusion in squeeze. '?' generally means I was
> too lazy to think about that patch and it might or might not be a
> candidate. What do you think?
[...]
You're probably right, but it'll take time to backport and properly test
this lot. So for now I'll just apply the single fix.
Ben.
--
Ben Hutchings
Life would be so much easier if we could look at the source code.
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