I had reported a kernel oops on this list a couple of months ago. The
oops occurs when starting the e1000 driver on kernel 2.6.37. The
following patch was based on a hint from Andreas Stewering-Bone and
fixes the problem for me:
--- start patch ---
diff -Naur ethercat-1.5.1/devices/e1000/e1000_main-2.6.37-ethercat.c
ethercat-1.5.1.wdm/devices/e1000/e1000_main-2.6.37-ethercat.c
--- ethercat-1.5.1/devices/e1000/e1000_main-2.6.37-ethercat.c
2012-01-30 09:26:20.000000000 -0500
+++ ethercat-1.5.1.wdm/devices/e1000/e1000_main-2.6.37-ethercat.c
2012-06-07 11:59:43.000000000 -0400
@@ -1393,7 +1393,9 @@
e1000_irq_enable(adapter);
- netif_start_queue(netdev);
+ if (adapter->ecdev) {
+ netif_start_queue(netdev);
+ }
/* fire a link status change interrupt to start the watchdog */
ew32(ICS, E1000_ICS_LSC);
--- end patch ---
Regards,
Wm
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