From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mv643xx ethernet driver
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 12:24:43 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070302122443.48e8c2d1@freekitty> (raw)
In-Reply-To: es8ahm$64p$1@sea.gmane.org
On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 23:52:06 -0500
Giridhar Pemmasani <giri@lmc.cs.sunysb.edu> wrote:
> During initialization, mv643xx driver registers IRQ before setting up tx/rx
> rings. This causes kernel oops because mv643xx_poll, which gets called
> right after registering IRQ, calls netif_rx_complete, which accesses the rx
> ring (I don't have the oops message anymore; I just remember this sequence
> of calls). Attached (tested) patch first initializes the rx/tx rings and
> then registers the IRQ.
>
> Giri
Wrong mailing list network device patches should be sent to:
NETWORK DEVICE DRIVERS
P: Andrew Morton
M: akpm@linux-foundation.org
P: Jeff Garzik
M: jgarzik@pobox.com
L: netdev@vger.kernel.org
T: git kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6.git
S: Maintained
--
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-02 20:26 UTC|newest]
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2007-03-02 4:52 [PATCH] mv643xx ethernet driver Giridhar Pemmasani
2007-03-02 20:24 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
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