From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc1 sky2 boot crash in sky2_mac_intr Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:27:52 +0100 Message-ID: <20070725112752.11d21751@oldman.hamilton.local> References: <20070724082205.GA19480@paradigm.rfc822.org> <20070724095008.0eb154fe@oldman.hamilton.local> <20070724094042.GA6414@paradigm.rfc822.org> <6bffcb0e0707241630p3599ad99sfd778097b307e78c@mail.gmail.com> <20070725072202.GA4905@paradigm.rfc822.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Michal Piotrowski , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Florian Lohoff Return-path: Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:41515 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756473AbXGYK14 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 06:27:56 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070725072202.GA4905@paradigm.rfc822.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:22:02 +0200 Florian Lohoff wrote: > On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 01:30:31AM +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote: > > >I'll try the above and keep you posted. The crash itself seems to be a > > >2.6.23-rc1 regression though. I never experienced this with 2.6.22-rc5 > > >which i was running before. > > > > Can you try to figure out what is causing this crash and then use > > git-bisect? > > Are there so many changes between 2.6.22-rc5 and 2.6.23-rc1 for the sky2? > > As the crash is not that reproducible, just occasionally on boot i guess > bisecting is more or less waste of time. > > Flo > -- > Florian Lohoff flo@rfc822.org +49-171-2280134 > Those who would give up a little freedom to get a little > security shall soon have neither - Benjamin Franklin I would suspect these as possible causes of the regression was one of these patches. commit 8f70920f2f2a699b4ad35e625071cd92f4ba6ca3 Author: Stephen Hemminger Date: Mon Jun 4 17:23:25 2007 -0700 sky2: GPIO register The General Purpose I/O register is yet another hardware workaround catchall. Enable workaround that vendor driver does to stay but for bug compatiable. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik commit 451af33552286b426940a32126bd3ece243223a3 Author: Stephen Hemminger Date: Mon Jun 4 17:23:24 2007 -0700 sky2: enable clocks before probe Catch-22: On Yukon EX (88E8071) need to have internal clocks enabled before reading chip id. It is harmless on other chips. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik commit fc99fe0618f355b708ce88fedaca9783072ac3d5 Author: Stephen Hemminger Date: Mon Jun 4 17:23:22 2007 -0700 sky2: Add PCI device specfic register 4 & 5 Need to setup more PCI control control registers are on Yukon EX. Some of these also exist on Yukon EC-U as well. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik