HEADS UP: fxp breakage

[Daniel C. Sobral]

Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
> Maxime Henrion wrote:
> 
>>     Hi all,
>>
>>
>> I was finally able to reproduce the problems people have been reporting.
>> That is, the fxp(4) card works but there are many odd "unknown: DMA
>> timeout" and "unknown: device timeout" messages.  This was due to a bug
>> in fxp(4) which was harmless unless you used DEVICE_POLLING.  These
>> problems go away when using the 1.156 revision of if_fxp.c.
>>
>> Please note that other people have been reporting different symptoms, ie
>> the card sees no traffic at all.  I'm not sure the latest sources fix
>> these cases too, but I'm fairly confident they do, because one person who
>> has been reporting me such symptoms was using DEVICE_POLLING too.
> 
> 
> Mmmmmm. Now that I think of it, I am too. On this particular machine. I 
> had forgotten I had configured DEVICE_POLLING in this host alone... :-( 
> Sorry about that. Could have speeded up things some. <sigh>
> 
> I'm trying a new kernel now.

Ok, this fixes it for me.

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