sk0: watchdog timeout

[Miles Lubin]

On Fri, 5 May 2006, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:

> On Fri, 5 May 2006, Wilko Bulte wrote:
>
>> I had a similar event last night, on a P4 on an Asus P4P800.  The current
>> driver is much less prone to this lockup problem than it used to be.  In my
>> case it does not have to be in a high-load situation, it appears to happen
>> rather randomly (and *very* infrequently)
>> 
>> FreeBSD freebie.xs4all.nl 6.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #2: Thu May
>> 4 22:37:22 CEST 2006
>
> The updated driver has been in HEAD for some days and the problem
> should be fixed there thanks to Pyun. See last commits to src/sys/dev/sk/*
>
> -- 
> Bjoern A. Zeeb				bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeT
>
>


Is is possible and/or a good idea to just take the driver in head and 
compile it with 6.1-RC?

I know this is rather late in the release process, but given that this 
issue will affect many people, I think it should be considered fixixing 
this driver for 6.1.


Miles