netdev - Re: Kernel oops on setting sky2 interfaces down

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Message-Id: <200908190902.02854.rene.mayrhofer@gibraltar.at>
Date:	Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:01:57 +0200
From:	Rene Mayrhofer <rene.mayrhofer@...raltar.at>
To:	Mike McCormack <mikem@...g3k.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

Hi everybody,

On Tuesday 11 August 2009 10:54:53 am Rene Mayrhofer wrote:
> Thus, there really seems to be an uncaught case in sky2.c. When
> sky2_phy_power_down is not called, chip should not go down, right? But
> still sky2_poll seems to be called (maybe by an interrupt belonging to
> another network interface but the same chip)?

Is there anything else I could try? We still have this issue, making one range 
of hardware appliances unusable with 2.6 kernels...

best regards,
Rene

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