From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: christian.riesch@omicron.at
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, f.fainelli@gmail.com,
prabhakar.csengg@gmail.com, mugunthanvnm@ti.com,
grygorii.strashko@ti.com, jon@ringle.org,
davinci-linux-open-source@linux.davincidsp.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] net: davinci_emac: Fix interrupt requests and error handling
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 15:33:33 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140324.153333.260738871320545801.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ffba6fa2-5a11-41b0-a310-12250e104405@mary.at.omicron.at>
From: Christian Riesch <christian.riesch@omicron.at>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 13:46:25 +0100
> since commit 6892b41d9701283085b655c6086fb57a5d63fa47 (Linux 3.11) the
> davinci_emac driver is broken. After doing ifconfig down, ifconfig up,
> requesting the interrupts for the driver fails. The interface remains dead
> until the board is rebooted.
>
> The first patch in this patchset reverts commit
> 6892b41d9701283085b655c6086fb57a5d63fa47 partially and makes the driver
> useable again.
>
> During the work on the first patch, a number of bugs in the error handling
> of the driver's ndo_open code were found. The second patch fixes these bugs.
>
> I believe the first patch meets the rules for stable kernels, I therefore added
> the stable tag to this patch. The second patch is just cleanup, the code
> that is fixed by this patch is only executed in case of an error.
Series applied and patch #1 queued up for -stable, thanks!
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2014-03-24 12:46 [PATCH v2 0/2] net: davinci_emac: Fix interrupt requests and error handling Christian Riesch
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