On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 10:59:59AM -0700, Kok, Auke wrote: > David Mack wrote: > > It appears that the needed e100 fix made it into the Fedora > > 2.6.23.1-23.fc8 kernel. Boots reliably now. > > > > Huge thanks and great work, guys. > > DaveJ, I didn't push anything upstream. Can you verify this now works?
There was no e100 changes in the kernel above, so David just got lucky. (The race doesn't always occur, so it sometimes appears something got fixed.). I included the patch below in the latest build, but I've not had chance to try it on an e100 box yet.. Dave --- linux-2.6.23.noarch/drivers/net/e100.c~ 2007-10-18 16:10:40.000000000 -0400 +++ linux-2.6.23.noarch/drivers/net/e100.c 2007-10-18 16:16:02.000000000 -0400 @@ -2682,6 +2682,8 @@ static int __devinit e100_probe(struct p if (err) DPRINTK(PROBE, ERR, "Error clearing wake event\n"); + netif_poll_disable(netdev); + strcpy(netdev->name, "eth%d"); if((err = register_netdev(netdev))) { DPRINTK(PROBE, ERR, "Cannot register net device, aborting.\n"); -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html