[tulip-bug] Kingston kne111tx and recompiling tulip on Mandrake 8.0

[Donald Becker]

On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Keith Warno wrote:

> Austin Gilbert wrote:
> > 
> > Like many of you I received the Kingston kne111tx
> > ethernet card with my DSL package from Southwestern
> > Bell.  I have heard that it can be made to work with
> > the most current versions of tulip.
> > 
> > However, when I tried to recompile the lastest version
> > of tulip it reported errors.
> > 
> > The command line used was for the red hat package that
> > I downloaded: rpm -i --force
> > RPMS/i386/netdriver-2.1-*.i386.rpm
> > 
> 
> Hmm, this would not, by chance, be on a box with a 2.4.x kernel?  I had
> the same issue just last night when upgrading to 2.4.6 from 2.2.19.  My
> solution, originally, was to grab the 'test' versions of both tulip.c
> and kern_compat.h (not sure if a more recent kern_compat.h was required)
> from ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/network/test/.  tulip.c then compiled
> fine.  I used it for a little bit before noticing a slew of syslog
> messages:
> 
> Jul 10 16:48:16 foo kernel: Warning: kfree_skb on hard IRQ d88818c4

Could you please try exactly the same test, making the following source
code change around line 2742:
   
				/* Free the original skb. */
-				dev_free_skb(tp->tx_skbuff[entry]);
+				dev_kfree_skb_irq(tp->tx_skbuff[entry]);
				tp->tx_skbuff[entry] = 0;
			}

This should avoid the message.

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