linux-kernel - Re: All Applied micro boards are failing with current mainline kernel

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Message-Id: <20101101.085030.226787287.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 01 Nov 2010 08:50:30 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	sfr@...b.auug.org.au
Cc:	jwboyer@...il.com, rsarmah@....com, therbert@...gle.com,
	eric.dumazet@...il.com, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: All Applied micro boards are failing with current mainline
 kernel

From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 02:36:50 +1100

> Hi Josh,
> 
> On Mon, 1 Nov 2010 11:05:53 -0400 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...il.com> wrote:
>>
>> A few hints would be appreciated.
> 
> Remove the call to netif_stop_queue() from emac_probe().  Apparently,
> calling this before register_netdev() is now wrong (maybe always was).

Right.

I'll add this to net-2.6

--------------------
ibm_newemac: Remove netif_stop_queue() in emac_probe().

Touching the queue state before register_netdev is not
allowed, and besides the queue state before ->open()
is "don't care"

Reported-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...il.com>
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
---
 drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c |    1 -
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c b/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c
index 385dc32..06bb9b7 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c
@@ -2871,7 +2871,6 @@ static int __devinit emac_probe(struct platform_device *ofdev,
 	SET_ETHTOOL_OPS(ndev, &emac_ethtool_ops);
 
 	netif_carrier_off(ndev);
-	netif_stop_queue(ndev);
 
 	err = register_netdev(ndev);
 	if (err) {
-- 
1.7.3.2

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