netdev - Re: REGRESSION: panic on e1000 driver

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Date:	Wed, 30 May 2007 15:57:13 -0700
From:	"Kok, Auke" <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com>
To:	Doug Chapman <doug.chapman@...com>, herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
CC:	auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: REGRESSION: panic on e1000 driver

Doug Chapman wrote:
> All,
> 
> I reported this a few weeks ago and it was fixed but it appears the
> offending code was again re-submitted.  This causes a panic on HP
> Integrity servers and from what I hear many other platforms using e1000
> as well.
> 
> My original report was via kernel.org BZ:
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8455
> 
> I am seeing the same panic with a kernel built from today's git pull.
> 
> 
> It was fixed by this commit:
> 3e1657c8ef53e1cd541cc1e420f3230dc075949b
> 
> 
> but once again broken just yesterday by the following commit.  I have
> backed just this commit out and verified I no longer panic.
> 
> 
> commit 47313054352b879a2bc65379d55b05f48a0af7ec
> Author: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
> Date:   Tue May 29 15:07:31 2007 -0700
> 
>     e1000: restore netif_poll_enable call but make sure IRQs are off

Hmm, we're making a mess of it.

Herbert, wouldn't it just have been a lot easier to do just add a 
netif_poll_disable in e1000_probe, so that any and all other poll 
enable/disables are symmetric ? Something like this?

Auke


PS: apologies for the whitespace damage... it's a cut'n'paste
---

Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com>

diff --git a/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c b/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c
index 49be393..a8a3c5f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c
@@ -1149,6 +1149,7 @@ e1000_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
         /* tell the stack to leave us alone until e1000_open() is called */
         netif_carrier_off(netdev);
         netif_stop_queue(netdev);
+       netif_poll_disable(netdev);

         DPRINTK(PROBE, INFO, "Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection\n");
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