From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050719 Red Hat/1.0.6-1.4.1 Firefox/1.0.6 Description of problem: A fix for a kernel hang when the link is down for e100 adapters may incur dropped netconsole messages. We try to transmit a message 32 times in rapid succession before declaring failure. This should be extended to a longer period of time, to cover cases where there is a lot of network traffic. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Didn't try Additional info: This patch came out of a discussion when trying to get the e100 link down fix into AS 2.1.
Created attachment 118805 [details] retry transmit for up to 2 jiffies Patch to address the potential regression.
A fix for this problem has just been committed to the RHEL3 U7 patch pool this evening (in kernel version 2.4.21-37.11.EL).
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0144.html