Re: kern/29126: tcpdump leads to packet loss

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/29126; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: Kimmo Suominen <kim%netbsd.org@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/29126: tcpdump leads to packet loss
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 15:17:21 +0000

 On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 12:55:02PM +0000, Kimmo Suominen wrote:
  >  Unfortunately I don't have any wm cards and when I looked at fxp, I didn't
  >  have the knowledge necessary for fixing it (the driver is very different
  >  from the ones I fixed -- and my fixed even needed further fixing as seen in
  >  the ticket).
  >  
  >  It might be better to open a separate ticket for each driver that
  >  unnecessarily resets the card when flags change. This would allow assigning
  >  each ticket to a person who understands the corresponding driver. This
  >  ticket could then remain closed, and just referenced from the new tickets.
 
 That is probably not necessary if we can keep the fixes coming.
 
 Do we have a list of the affected devices? From the earlier traffic it
 looks like fxp and vr remain unfixed; are there others?
 
 -- 
 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost