FCC Ethernet startup crash

[Rune Torgersen]

Ahhh....
I see what happened....
Basically only the last part of that patch has been applied to the 2.6
kernels..

fcc_restart gets called both in init_fcc_startup *and* fcc_open.
 
I'll try to remove the fcc_restart in init_fcc_startup, and see what
happens.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefan Nickl [mailto:Stefan.Nickl at kontron.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 10:57
> To: Rune Torgersen
> Cc: linuxppc-embedded
> Subject: Re: FCC Ethernet startup crash
> 
> On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 10:37 -0500, Rune Torgersen wrote:
> > I've been running into the old problem of the kernel ip 
> stack crasheing
> > the kernel, because of early packets again.
> > 
> > This has been mentioned on this list several times before, but the
> > worarounds that used to work doesn't seem to work anymore.
> > (like changing the order of things in ip_init())
> > 
> > As far as I can tell, it is because the FCC enet drivers starts to
> > receive packets way before the ip stack is initialized.
> > 
> > Does anybody have any good ideas on how to fix this?
> 
> Maybe you want to try my version:
> 
> http://ozlabs.org/ppc32-patches/patch.pl?id=14
> 
> Or is it equal to your (no longer working) solution?
> 
> -- 
> Stefan Nickl
> Kontron Modular Computers
> 
> 
> 
>