Gianfar ethernet MPC85xx driver not seen anymore when moving to 2.6.29 kernel

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Sat Feb 14 01:44:45 EST 2009


On Feb 13, 2009, at 4:34 AM, willy jacobs wrote:

> When I moved (config file and device tree) from 2.6.28 (and earlier  
> kernel releases) to 2.6.29-rc2 for some reason
> the Gianfar driver is correctly compiled in, but not probed anymore  
> during kernel booting.
>
> I looked into the Changelogs, but did'nt see any change regarding  
> this.
>
> Do I need to change the device tree and/ir config file?
> -- 
> willy
> Unclassified

Can you try -rc4.  There are a number of bug fixes that have gone in.   
Also have you made updates to your .dts per:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=b31a1d8b41513b96e9c7ec2f68c5734cef0b26a4

- k



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