FCC Ethernet startup crash

[Rune Torgersen]

Thanks....

That whole patch works beautifully.
Had to apply the whole thing (so fcc_restart gets called in the start,
and end of fcc_open) for it to work.

Without calling fcc_restart in the start, I get lots of "eth0: tx queue
full!." messages.

> -----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
> 
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