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Message-Id: <20150909.203036.1906860306892237106.davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2015 20:30:36 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To: b38611@...escale.com
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, bhutchings@...arflare.com,
l.stach@...gutronix.de, f.fainelli@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2 1/1] net: fec: add netif status check before set
mac address
From: Fugang Duan <b38611@...escale.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 09:35:39 +0800
> There exist one issue by below case that case system hang:
> ifconfig eth0 down
> ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:10:19:19:81:19
>
> After eth0 down, all fec clocks are gated off. In the .fec_set_mac_address()
> function, it will set new MAC address to registers, which causes system hang.
>
> So it needs to add netif status check to avoid registers access when clocks are
> gated off. Until eth0 up the new MAC address are wrote into related registers.
>
> V2:
> As Lucas Stach's suggestion, add a comment in the code to explain why it needed.
>
> CC: Lucas Stach <l.stach@...gutronix.de>
> CC: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Fugang Duan <B38611@...escale.com>
Applied, thanks.
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