netdev - Re: Kernel oops on setting sky2 interfaces down

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Date:	Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:11:23 +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 Mike,

On Wednesday 19 August 2009 05:00:31 pm Mike McCormack wrote:
> There's a couple of things to try:
>
> * try the latest sky2 code from net-next-2.6
> * try adding an msleep(1) after sky2_rx_stop() in sky2_down()
> * try adding a check for rx_ring and tx_ring being NULL in
> sky2_status_intr(), and disable napi while freeing the buffers in
> sky2_down()
>
> I've got an untested, ad-hoc patch against net-next-2.6 for the last
> two bits ...

I will try all these (hopefully in the next 24h), starting with the patch you 
sent me in PM, then the patch attached to this email, and finally pulling 
sky2.c from net-next-2.6 and applying this patch. 

best regards,
Rene

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