On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 9:20 PM, Michael Schmitz
<[email protected]> wrote:
> The ne.c network driver does not appear to tolerate interrupts arriving before
> the device has been configured, at least in the early boot phases. I'm
> uncertain
> whether it would work even with my latest patches applied - maybe I can find
> some time on the weekend to test that.
Stupid ISA-only driver without IRQ sharing support...
The hydra and zorro8390 driver should handle that case fine, as interrupts are
shared on Amiga.
> Geert: is there some way for kernel network drivers to figure out whether the
> network subsystem has been initialized, and hold off interrupt processing
> before that time? I'm using 'if (netif_running(dev))' in atari_ethernec but
> that does not appear to prevent the lockup.
Doesn't the driver know when it's configured?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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