4.9-RC and bge

[Paul Saab]

John Polstra (jdp at polstra.com) wrote:
> On 30-Sep-2003 Damon Anton Permezel wrote:
> > Recent SUP.
> > Installed on Dell PowerEdge 4600.
> > Getting tons of:
> > 
> > Sep 30 12:23:16 zige /kernel: bge0: gigabit link up
> > Sep 30 12:23:46 zige last message repeated 98 times
> 
> Check your dmesg output, and I bet you'll see that bge0 is sharing an
> IRQ with another device.  (If not, I'd like to hear about it.)  This
> bug was fixed in -current in revision 1.41 of if_bge.c, but it never
> got merged to -stable.  I have a patch for -stable that I am planning
> to commit after the source freeze lifts.  It is attached to this mail.
> Please let me know whether it solves your problem or not.

The only reason I never backported this was that loadandclear is not on
alpha and therefore would break on alpha.