netdev - [PATCH] e1000: Don't enable polling in open() (was: e1000: assertion hit in e1000

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Date:	Mon, 21 May 2007 14:51:35 -0700
From:	Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com>
To:	jeff@...zik.org, stable@...r.kernel.org, greg@...e.de
Cc:	e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com, davej@...hat.com,
	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Subject: [PATCH] e1000: Don't enable polling in open() (was: e1000: assertion
	hit in e1000_clean(), kernel 2.6.21.1)

Herbert Xu wrote:
"netif_poll_enable can only be called if you've previously called
netif_poll_disable.  Otherwise a poll might already be in action
and you may get a crash like this."

Removing the call to netif_poll_enable in e1000_open should fix this issue,
the only other call to netif_poll_enable is in e1000_up() which is only
reached after a device reset or resume.

Bugzilla: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8455
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=240339

Tested by Doug Chapman <doug.chapman@...com>

Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
---

 drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c |    4 ----
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c b/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c
index 49be393..cbc7feb 100644
--- a/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c
@@ -1431,10 +1431,6 @@ e1000_open(struct net_device *netdev)
 	/* From here on the code is the same as e1000_up() */
 	clear_bit(__E1000_DOWN, &adapter->flags);
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_E1000_NAPI
-	netif_poll_enable(netdev);
-#endif
-
 	e1000_irq_enable(adapter);
 
 	/* fire a link status change interrupt to start the watchdog */
-
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