netdev - Re: WARNING in module rt2870sta stable kernel 2.6.37

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Date:	Tue, 18 Jan 2011 21:30:16 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Giangiacomo Mariotti <gg.mariotti@...il.com>
Cc:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: WARNING in module rt2870sta stable kernel 2.6.37

Le mardi 18 janvier 2011 à 21:16 +0100, Giangiacomo Mariotti a écrit :
> Hi, the following message was logged on a 2.6.37 kernel(it says
> tainted, but it's actually a micro patch I wrote and applied on top of
> current 2.6.37 vanilla, patch appended, but it should be irrelevant, I
> just shut up a bunch of useless debug output for this staging driver):

Thats a known problem

Please try following patch

[PATCH] staging, rt2860: fix panic

Its now illegal to call netif_stop_queue() before register_netdev()
(commit e6484930d7 ("net: allocate tx queues inregister_netdevice")
    
Reported-by: Giangiacomo Mariotti <gg.mariotti@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
---
 drivers/staging/rt2860/rt_main_dev.c |    2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rt2860/rt_main_dev.c b/drivers/staging/rt2860/rt_main_dev.c
index 701561d..236dd36 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rt2860/rt_main_dev.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rt2860/rt_main_dev.c
@@ -484,8 +484,6 @@ struct net_device *RtmpPhyNetDevInit(struct rt_rtmp_adapter *pAd,
 	net_dev->ml_priv = (void *)pAd;
 	pAd->net_dev = net_dev;
 
-	netif_stop_queue(net_dev);
-
 	return net_dev;
 
 }


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