Re: 2.6.19-rc6-mm2: uli526x only works after reload

Andrew Morton
2006-11-29T21:30:55Z

On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:08:00 +0100
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:

> On Wednesday, 29 November 2006 20:54, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Tuesday, 28 November 2006 11:02, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > >
> > > Temporarily at
> > >
> > > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.19-rc6-mm2/
> > >
> > > Will appear eventually at
> > >
> > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.19-rc6/2.6.19-rc6-mm2/
> >
> > A minor issue: on one of my (x86-64) test boxes the uli526x driver doesn't
> > work when it's first loaded. I have to rmmod and modprobe it to make it work.

That isn't a minor issue.

> > It worked just fine on -mm1, so something must have happened to it recently.
>
> Sorry, I was wrong. The driver doesn't work at all, even after reload.
>

tulip-dmfe-carrier-detection-fix.patch was added in rc6-mm2. But you're
not using that (corrent?)

git-netdev-all changes drivers/net/tulip/de2104x.c, but you're not using
that either.

git-powerpc(!) alters drivers/net/tulip/de4x5.c, but you're not using that.

Beats me, sorry. Perhaps it's due to changes in networking core. It's
presumably a showstopper for statically-linked-uli526x users. If you could
bisect it, please? I'd start with git-netdev-all, then tulip-*.