[tulip] 2.4.17 tulip multiport-patch

[Donald Becker]

On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Christoph Dworzak wrote:

> After lots of Headscratching, I found this little bug:
> 
> replace line 1642 of tulip_core.c:
> 
> 		    irq = last_irq;
> 
> with
> 
> 		    dev->irq = irq = last_irq;

Hmmm, a little bit of bad conversion here.  The tulip.c code follows
this section by

     dev->irq = irq;

a few lines later.

> While using the de4x5-driver, my system-load climbed steadily
> up. After 3 Days it was at 99.5%.

Check the interrupt count in /dev/interrupts.

> This was repeatable. -> Reboot every other day :(

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