sungem: Soft lockup in sungem on Netra AC200 when switching interface up
authorIlkka Virta <itvirta@iki.fi>
Sat, 7 Feb 2009 06:00:36 +0000 (22:00 -0800)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Sat, 7 Feb 2009 06:00:36 +0000 (22:00 -0800)
commit71822faa3bc0af5dbf5e333a2d085f1ed7cd809f
treeb0ad50f98ee521de666f595ec4d33b430f39a80c
parent15bde72738f373aa060ececeda8e064e4f924360
sungem: Soft lockup in sungem on Netra AC200 when switching interface up

From: Ilkka Virta <itvirta@iki.fi>

In the lockup situation the driver seems to go off in an eternal storm
of interrupts right after calling request_irq(). It doesn't actually
do anything interesting in the interrupt handler. Since connecting the link
afterwards works, something later in initialization must fix this.

Looking at gem_do_start() and gem_open(), it seems that the only thing
done while opening the device after the request_irq(), is a call to
napi_enable().

I don't know what the ordering requirements are for the
initialization, but I boldly tried to move the napi_enable() call
inside gem_do_start() before the link state is checked and interrupts
subsequently enabled, and it seems to work for me. Doesn't even break
anything too obvious...

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/sungem.c