FreeBSD 7.1 Breaks re and rl Network Interface Drivers

[Pyun YongHyeon]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 05:37:39PM +0100, Dimitry Andric wrote:
 > On 2009-01-12 07:41, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
 > > I see, Unfortunately the issue was fixed in the end of 7.1-R
 > > release process so I wanted to get more exposure before MFC.
 > > I'll make sure to MFC to stable/7 after more testing.
 > 
 > I'm also having problems with re's, in my case the interfaces take about
 > 10 seconds to come up, if they come up at all.  After the interfaces are
 > up, half the time no packets go out at all.  Usually it helps to bring
 > them down via the console, wait about 10 seconds, and then bring them up
 > again...
 > 

It looks like that RTL8169SC users see regression and I vaguely
remember a couple of issues on RTL8169SC. As Jung-uk said in other
post, would yoy try reverting r180519? If that have no effect would
you try attached patch?

 > These are the following variant:
 > 
 > FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE #0: Mon Jan 12 14:22:11 CET 2009
 > [...]
 > re0: <RealTek 8169SC/8110SC Single-chip Gigabit Ethernet> port 0xf000-0xf0ff mem 0xfdfff000-0xfdfff0ff irq 18 at device 9.0 on pci0
 > re0: Chip rev. 0x18000000
 > re0: MAC rev. 0x00000000
 > miibus0: <MII bus> on re0
 > rgephy0: <RTL8169S/8110S/8211B media interface> PHY 1 on miibus0
 > rgephy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT, 1000baseT-FDX, auto
 > re0: Ethernet address: 00:30:18:a6:f1:a8
 > re0: [FILTER]
 > re1: <RealTek 8169SC/8110SC Single-chip Gigabit Ethernet> port 0xf200-0xf2ff mem 0xfdffe000-0xfdffe0ff irq 19 at device 11.0 on pci0
 > re1: Chip rev. 0x18000000
 > re1: MAC rev. 0x00000000
 > miibus1: <MII bus> on re1
 > rgephy1: <RTL8169S/8110S/8211B media interface> PHY 1 on miibus1
 > rgephy1:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT, 1000baseT-FDX, auto
 > re1: Ethernet address: 00:30:18:a6:f1:a9
 > re1: [FILTER]
 > 
 > And just FYI, r187080-r187083 that you recently committed (MFCs of
 > r184240-184243, r184245, 185575 and r186390), don't seem to change
 > anything for this situation. :(

Those MFC are for rl(4), not re(4) so you should see no behavioural
changes in re(4).

-- 
Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon
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