em(4) duplex problems with 82541EI on RELENG_8, -CURRENT on PowerEdge 1850

[Harald Schmalzbauer]

On 26.07.2010 18:19, Brian A. Seklecki (CFI NOC) wrote:
> On 7/19/2010 12:00 PM, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote:
>> ******************************************/
>> -/*$FreeBSD: src/sys/dev/e1000/if_igb.h,v 1.4.2.2.2.1 2010/06/14
>> 02:09:06 kensmith Exp $*/
>> +/*$FreeBS
> 
> 
> Haralad:
> 
>   It looks like your patch is identical to the patch RFP'd from HEAD
>   to branches/stable/8 on 06/18/2010 (aka, SVN r209309?)
> 
>   This includes the cumulative backport of changes in HEAD from
>   r208117 all the way to r209259 (but not 209959, which addresses
>   the TX checksum panic?)

Looks like I really missed r209259

>   Just to confirm: This fixes the duplex problems for you?

No, I haven't done further tests regarding the duplex problem.

>   If so, odd -- I coped all of e1000/*.{c.h} from 8/stable/.../e1000/*
>   on 07/17/2010 into releng/8.1/sys/dev/e1000/* and am still seeing
>   the duplex problem after a full rebuild.
> 
>   I've been laboring under the assumption that SVN r209238 fixed
>   my problem, but it doesn't appear so from my backport testing.
> 
>   I'll try modifying your patch to include r209259 -> 209959 from
>   HEAD as well and go from there.

Sorry for the hassle, I shouldn't have posted this patch without
verification.

-Harry