[PATCH] [POWERPC] 83xx: MPC837xRDB's VSC7385 ethernet switch isn't on the MDIO bus

Joakim Tjernlund joakim.tjernlund at transmode.se
Tue Mar 18 09:22:16 EST 2008


On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 16:46 -0500, Timur Tabi wrote:
> Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> 
> > Trying to add fixed-link support for ucc_geth as this is broken too. I
> > noticed that ifconfig eth1 up follwed by ifconfig eth1 down hangs
> > my board once I got the ucc_geth driver to recognize fixed-link.
> > Does it work for you?
> 
> A long time ago there was a bug where "ifconfig eth1 down" would cause a kernel
> panic if eth0 was also up.  The root cause was a bug in rheap.c.  However, this
> code was fixed a year ago.  Could it be a similar bug?

eth0 is also up, was it commit 4942bd80e83d13bf394df4a8109bee39d861820f
that fixed that bug? 2.6.23 works fine for me.

      Jocke



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