From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 08:51:57 -0700 From: Tom Rini To: Rune Torgersen Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: Netconsole on 8260 Message-ID: <20040702155157.GF15960@smtp.west.cox.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 10:43:11AM -0500, Rune Torgersen wrote: > As far as I could see, the only thing needed to support the netpoll API > was to add a poll function that would call the interrupt driver. I did > that. Console does not get dumped to ethertnet > > According to wat gets printed, netconsole init aborts when it does not > find a ethernet device. > This is way later thatn parameter initialization, but still before FCC's > are initialized (see kernel dump from original post), last line before I > cut out some text says: Ah yes, that's the other problem... netconsole relies on link order to be linked in after all other network drivers. But since the cpm2 ones are currently broken and live in arch/ppc, the link order is busted. You can change netconsole from module_init to late_initcall(), but I don't think you can convince upstream that this is the correct fix. -- Tom Rini http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/ ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/