Networkl problems with lastest kernel....

[David Miller]

From: Sean MacLennan <smaclennan at pikatech.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:18:29 -0400

> I just did a git pull of Linus' kernel. It seems to be mainly network
> changes... and I get the following oops. Anybody else seeing this?
> 
> I really don't have time to look at the problem right now, maybe
> tonight.

If I had a penny for every driver with broken TX queue handling...

Please try this patch, thanks:

diff --git a/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c b/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c
index 2e720f2..4e01d29 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c
@@ -1157,6 +1157,7 @@ static int emac_open(struct net_device *ndev)
 	mal_enable_rx_channel(dev->mal, dev->mal_rx_chan);
 	emac_tx_enable(dev);
 	emac_rx_enable(dev);
+	netif_start_queue(dev);
 	emac_netif_start(dev);
 
 	mutex_unlock(&dev->link_lock);