netdev - RE: WARN_ON() hit in fsl bitbanged phy driver

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Date:	Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:12:34 -0600
From:	"Rune Torgersen" <runet@...ovsys.com>
To:	"Scott Wood" <scottwood@...escale.com>
Cc:	<linuxppc-dev@...abs.org>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: WARN_ON() hit in fsl bitbanged phy driver

Scott Wood wrote:
> Rune Torgersen wrote:
>> I hit the following WARN_ON when using mii-tools agains a ethernet
>> interface using a bit-banged mii interface
> 
> It looks like the kernel thinks it's in an interrupt, even though it
> clearly isn't from the backtrace.  Presumably, something
> slept from an
> interrupt handler; try turning on sleep-in-spinlock debugging.

I turned on sleep-in-spinlock and it did not reveal anything. I'm trying
some other debug options.

> The root cause was probably something other than the phy code.
I'm not so sure, because it only happens when I run mii-tool agains the
interface useing the bit-banged driver, and then only the first time.



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