> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Wheldon [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2014 9:46 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] ixgbe master disable timeout
>
> Hi Don,
>
> A little tricky for me as this box only has 2 interfaces and both use
> this driver,
> I'm also 1.5 hours drive from it.
FYI - just a quick hint that might help your testing. You can bind and unbind
specific devices from a driver on the fly instead of relying on modprobe and
rmmod. For example, you can be logged in remotely through one of your
interfaces using ixgbe, load the new ixgbe driver, unbind the other interface
from ixgbe (this looks to that single device the same as an rmmod), then bind
it to ixgbe-new.
# insmod ixgbe-new
No devices are probed as they are already assigned to ixgbe
# echo -n "0000:0e:00.1" > /sys/module/ixgbe/drivers/pci:ixgbe/unbind
Remove 0e:00.1 from ixgbe
# echo -n "0000:0e:00.1" >
/sys/module/ixgbe-new/drivers/pci:ixgbe-new/bind
Assign the device to the new driver and start the probe()
See http://lwn.net/Articles/143397/ for details.
sln
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