if_rum dies on transmit...

[Glen Barber]

Hello,

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Weongyo Jeong <weongyo.jeong at gmail.com> wrote:

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>> Do you know if this patch is likely to fix the panics seen with rum(4) or
>> is this likely to only fix the TX hangs?
>
> AFAIK this patch only fixes TX hangs.  I didn't see PRs yet related with
> the panics but I think it could affect user's panic a little bit.
>

I applied this patch to -STABLE and it seems to have fixed my panic
problems with rum(4).  So far, 1+ hour uptime on AC power and 20+
minutes on battery, which is unusual.  rum(4) was one of the potential
culprits I was trying to isolate.

Thank you!

FreeBSD pegasus 8.0-RC1 FreeBSD 8.0-RC1 #8 r198161M: Thu Oct 15
20:09:20 EDT 2009     root at pegasus:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PEGASUS  i386

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Glen Barber