netdev - Re: [patch 18/19] mv643xx ethernet driver IRQ registration fix

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Date:	Tue, 06 Mar 2007 06:16:43 -0500
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, giri@....cs.sunysb.edu,
	dale@...nsworth.org, pgiri@...oo.com
Subject: Re: [patch 18/19] mv643xx ethernet driver IRQ registration fix

akpm@...ux-foundation.org wrote:
> From: Giridhar Pemmasani <giri@....cs.sunysb.edu>
> 
> During initialization, mv643xx driver registers IRQ before setting up tx/rx
> rings.  This causes kernel oops because mv643xx_poll, which gets called
> right after registering IRQ, calls netif_rx_complete, which accesses the rx
> ring (I don't have the oops message anymore; I just remember this sequence
> of calls).  Attached (tested) patch first initializes the rx/tx rings and
> then registers the IRQ.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Giridhar Pemmasani <pgiri@...oo.com>
> Cc: Dale Farnsworth <dale@...nsworth.org>
> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> ---
> 
>  drivers/net/mv643xx_eth.c |   40 +++++++++++++++++++-----------------
>  1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

seems sane enough to me, but I would like to get this via Dale, who has 
been a fairly active maintainer so far


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