fun with if_re

[Pyun YongHyeon]

On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 08:58:12AM +0100, Gerrit K?hn wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 19:46:55 +0900 Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh at gmail.com> wrote
> about Re: fun with if_re:
> 
> 
> PY> Since you're using RTL8169SC it could be related with my commit
> PY> r180519(cvs rev 1.95.2.22). It seems that RTL8169SC does not like
> PY> memory mapped register access and I think jkim@ committed patch
> PY> for the issue. Would you try re(4) in HEAD?
> PY> (Just copying if_re.c, if_rlreg.h and if_rl.c from HEAD to
> PY> stable would be enough to build re(4) on stable).
> 
> Thanks for the advice.
> I did build new nanobsd images with these patches meanwhile and will start
> using them today. However, as it has worked without problems for weeks
> with the buggy version before, I will not be able to say if it is really
> working until next month or so. Or do you know any method to reliably

That's fine.

> trigger such errors?

Unfortunately no. Not all RTL8169SC controller shows the issue and
I don't know whether you have problematic one.