From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Michael <michael@moffatt.org.nz>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org,
bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
stable@kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] starfire: Clean up properly if firmware loading fails
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:28:39 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100125192839.7eaceb2b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B5E5A5F.90608@moffatt.org.nz>
On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:58:39 +1300 Michael <michael@moffatt.org.nz> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I think I'm the submitter that Ben is referring to.
>
> So that could be the answer to the kernel BUG I have reported, but I
> don't think that it will answer why the interface doesn't come up... or
> does it?
>From this:
Jan 21 05:08:26 172 kernel: starfire: Failed to load firmware "adaptec/starfire_rx.bin"
Jan 21 05:08:26 172 kernel: device eth4 entered promiscuous mode
Jan 21 05:08:26 172 kernel: starfire 0000:03:06.0: firmware: requesting adaptec/starfire_rx.bin
Jan 21 05:08:26 172 kernel: starfire: Failed to load firmware "adaptec/starfire_rx.bin"
Jan 21 05:08:26 172 kernel: device eth5 entered promiscuous mode
Jan 21 05:08:26 172 kernel: starfire 0000:03:07.0: firmware: requesting adaptec/starfire_rx.bin
Jan 21 05:08:26 172 kernel: starfire: Failed to load firmware "adaptec/starfire_rx.bin"
Jan 21 05:08:26 172 kernel: device eth6 entered promiscuous mode
Jan 21 05:08:26 172 kernel: starfire 0000:04:04.0: firmware: requesting adaptec/starfire_rx.bin
I assume that it can't find the firmware?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-26 3:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <bug-15091-10286@http.bugzilla.kernel.org/>
2010-01-26 1:08 ` [Bugme-new] [Bug 15091] New: starfire causes kernel BUG when interface goes up Andrew Morton
2010-01-26 1:44 ` Michael
2010-01-26 1:51 ` Andrew Morton
2010-01-26 2:02 ` [PATCH] starfire: Clean up properly if firmware loading fails Ben Hutchings
2010-01-26 2:15 ` Andrew Morton
2010-01-26 2:32 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-01-26 2:58 ` Michael
2010-01-26 3:28 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2010-01-26 5:51 ` Michael
2010-01-26 5:57 ` Andrew Morton
2010-01-26 14:40 ` Ben Hutchings
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