netdev - Re: Kernel oops on setting sky2 interfaces down

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Date:	Thu, 06 Aug 2009 07:50:38 +0900
From:	Mike McCormack <mikem@...g3k.org>
To:	Rene Mayrhofer <rene@...rhofer.eu.org>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Richard Leitner <leitner@...s.at>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Kernel oops on setting sky2 interfaces down

Rene Mayrhofer wrote:

> What would be the simplest change to stop disabling phy when the last
> device goes down?

Commenting out the following line should stop all the phys from powering off:

sky2_phy_power_down(hw, port);

If you have a chance, please test "sky2: Add a mutex around ethtools operations" also.
it probably won't fix the problem you're seeing, but you never know...

thanks,

Mike

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