From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tony@atomide.com (Tony Lindgren) Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 13:59:41 -0700 Subject: Regression in next with "softirq: fix tasklet_kill() and its users" In-Reply-To: References: <20160922205122.ezsxjint2l6lytyi@atomide.com> Message-ID: <20160922205941.al4m3vf6en4c3txk@atomide.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org * Santosh Shilimkar [160922 13:59]: > On 9/22/2016 1:51 PM, Tony Lindgren wrote: > > Hi Santosh, > > > > Looks like commit 1f5e9c3bc47f ("softirq: fix tasklet_kill() and > > its users") causes pandaboard es to not get any IP address on the > > smsc95xx USB Ethernet. > > > > Reverting the commits fixes the issue. Any ideas? > > > Yep. It was discussed today morning and Stephen was suppose to > revert that commit from next for now. > > The tasklet core fix even though fixes the issue, there are many > bad users of tasklet which are using tasklet APIs without > doing any sort of tasklet initialization. So there is more > work to do before the tasklet core can be fixed. OK thanks for the info. Regards, Tony