netdev - Re: [PATCH] sky2: fix hard hang with netconsoling and iface going up

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Date:	Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:19:03 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	shemminger@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	adobriyan@...il.com, jgarzik@...ox.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sky2: fix hard hang with netconsoling and iface going
 up

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:49:28 -0800

> Netconsole should be smart enough to not try and print to
> a device that is not marked running.

I think the hardware is marked running.

This is at the beginning of the driver's ->open() method.

The netpoll layer is in fact checking those states:

static void netpoll_send_skb(struct netpoll *np, struct sk_buff *skb)
{
 ...
	if (!npinfo || !netif_running(dev) || !netif_device_present(dev)) {
		__kfree_skb(skb);
		return;
	}
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