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Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 08:20:17 +0000 From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com> To: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> Cc: a.beregalov@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: SunHME: trying to enable netconsole/netpolling On 03-09-2008 22:59, David Miller wrote: > From: "Alexander Beregalov" <a.beregalov@...il.com> > Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 20:26:54 +0400 > >> Hi David >> >> Can you please advice >> I am a newbie here. >> I am trying to enable netconsole output with sunhme card, >> I found that poll_controller is not defined and defined it >> as it is defined in other drivers (just to watch if it will work, I >> dont understand this code yet) >> My patch is in attach. >> My card is connected to PCI bus. > > It isn't going to work until sunhme is converted to NAPI, and that > may never happen. > > So unless someone knowledgable wants to do the work, which certianly > is not me, sunhme for now will not support netconsole. Alas I'm not someone like this, and probably there are some deeper problems here, but I wonder if could try to look at 3c509.c (non-NAPI too), especially wrt. locking, so spin_lock_irqsave /irqrestore() in happy_meal_start_xmit() and disable_irq()/enable_irq() in this poll_controller wrapper? Jarek P. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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