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From: "Kok, Auke" <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Doug Chapman <doug.chapman@hp.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: REGRESSION: panic on e1000 driver
Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 15:11:12 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <465F4800.8080103@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070531214947.GA9428@gondor.apana.org.au>

Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 07:54:31AM -0700, Kok, Auke wrote:
>> so how about calling netif_poll_disable() before we register the net_device?
> 
> Yes that should work.  Let's move the other two netif_ calls while we're
> at it.
>  
>> well no, if we make the watchdog (this is something I've already 
>> implemented locally and -mm has it for instance) run as delayed work we can 
>> just schedule a watchdog run instead of firing an interrupt.
> 
> OK.  The only thing I'm worried about is if we're uncovering some
> underlying problem with the platform with respect to memory barriers
> then we should get to the bottom of it first before making this problem
> disappear.

agreed. I will try to send a patch to do this later today.

Auke

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-31 22:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-30 21:22 REGRESSION: panic on e1000 driver Doug Chapman
2007-05-30 22:57 ` Kok, Auke
2007-05-30 23:31   ` Doug Chapman
2007-05-31  0:51   ` Herbert Xu
2007-05-31  4:51     ` Kok, Auke
2007-05-31  5:06       ` Herbert Xu
2007-05-31 14:54         ` Kok, Auke
2007-05-31 21:49           ` Herbert Xu
2007-05-31 22:11             ` Kok, Auke [this message]
2007-05-31  1:08 ` Herbert Xu
2007-05-31 15:16   ` Doug Chapman
2007-05-31 15:23     ` [E1000-devel] " Kok, Auke
2007-05-31 21:48       ` Herbert Xu
2007-05-31 22:10         ` Kok, Auke
2007-05-31 22:10     ` Herbert Xu
2007-05-31 22:38       ` Doug Chapman
2007-06-01  0:34         ` Herbert Xu

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