netdev - Re: ixp4xx eth broken in 3.7.0/3.8-rc5?

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Date:	Wed, 30 Jan 2013 01:11:08 +0100
From:	Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@...uu.se>
To:	Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@...uu.se>
Cc:	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Imre Kaloz <kaloz@...nwrt.org>,
	Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>, Xi Wang <xi.wang@...il.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ixp4xx eth broken in 3.7.0/3.8-rc5?

Mikael Pettersson writes:
 > When I try to update my ixp4xx machine to a 3.8-rc5 kernel it boots
 > Ok but the network (CONFIG_IXP4XX_ETH=y) fails to come up, with the
 > following in the kernel log:
 > 
 > net eth0: coherent DMA mask is unset
 > 
 > With a 3.7.0 kernel the situation is similar, except that the "net
 > eth0: coherent DMA mask is unset" message repeats itself endlessly
 > and I can't even get in on the serial console.
 > 
 > With the 3.6.0 kernel everything works perfectly.

A git bisect identified the following as the culprit:

 > From 1a4901177574083c35fafc24c4d151c2a7c7647c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
 > From: Xi Wang <xi.wang@...il.com>
 > Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 20:25:09 +0000
 > Subject: [PATCH] ixp4xx_eth: avoid calling dma_pool_create() with NULL dev
 > 
 > Use &port->netdev->dev instead of NULL since dma_pool_create() doesn't
 > allow NULL dev.
 > 
 > Signed-off-by: Xi Wang <xi.wang@...il.com>
 > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
 > Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
 > ---
 >  drivers/net/ethernet/xscale/ixp4xx_eth.c |    8 +++++---
 >  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Reverting this unbreaks ixp4xx_eth on my ixp4xx machine with kernels
3.7.0 and 3.8-rc5.

(Added cc: author and netdev.)

/Mikael
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