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* [PATCH] ibm_emac: don't enable tx processing until device is opened
@ 2003-09-18 10:01 Eugene Surovegin
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From: Eugene Surovegin @ 2003-09-18 10:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linuxppc-embedded


Hi all!

There is a bug in PPC 4xx EMAC driver which in my case caused oops during
kernel startup.

Reason is simple, link timer enables tx processing _before_ device is
opened and driver may try to queue packet _before_ TCP/IP subsystem has
been initialized.

Quick fix against linuxppc-2.4 tree:

===== drivers/net/ibm_emac/ibm_ocp_enet.c 1.1 vs edited =====
--- 1.1/drivers/net/ibm_emac/ibm_ocp_enet.c	Thu Jul 10 12:50:02 2003
+++ edited/drivers/net/ibm_emac/ibm_ocp_enet.c	Thu Sep 18 02:51:18 2003
@@ -989,7 +989,8 @@
                   * latency peaks caused by this code
                   */
                  emac_reset_configure(fep);
-                emac_kick(fep);
+		if (fep->opened)
+            		emac_kick(fep);
  	} else {
  	        fep->timer_ticks = 0;
  	        netif_carrier_off(fep->ndev);

Thanks,

Eugene


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