Bug#508527: [PATCH] via-velocity: Give RX descriptors to the NIC later on open or MTU change

2010-01-03 Thread David Miller
From: Jan Ceuleers jan.ceule...@computer.org Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 10:36:03 +0100 Jan Ceuleers wrote: I have successfully booted a 2.6.32.2 kernel with this patch applied on top on a PXE-booting machine with nfsroot. Obviously this was on a machine with a Via Velocity NIC. Fair enough,

Bug#508527: [PATCH] via-velocity: Give RX descriptors to the NIC later on open or MTU change

2009-12-28 Thread Jan Ceuleers
Jan Ceuleers wrote: I have successfully booted a 2.6.32.2 kernel with this patch applied on top on a PXE-booting machine with nfsroot. Obviously this was on a machine with a Via Velocity NIC. Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Bug#508527: [PATCH] via-velocity: Give RX descriptors to the NIC later on open or MTU change

2009-12-28 Thread Jan Ceuleers
David Miller wrote: velocity_open() calls velocity_give_many_rx_descs(), which gives RX descriptors to the NIC, before installing an interrupt handler or calling velocity_init_registers(). I think this is very unsafe and it appears to explain the bug report http://bugs.debian.org/508527. On

Bug#508527: [PATCH] via-velocity: Give RX descriptors to the NIC later on open or MTU change

2009-12-25 Thread David Miller
From: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:05:09 + velocity_open() calls velocity_give_many_rx_descs(), which gives RX descriptors to the NIC, before installing an interrupt handler or calling velocity_init_registers(). I think this is very unsafe and it appears

Bug#508527: [PATCH] via-velocity: Give RX descriptors to the NIC later on open or MTU change

2009-12-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
velocity_open() calls velocity_give_many_rx_descs(), which gives RX descriptors to the NIC, before installing an interrupt handler or calling velocity_init_registers(). I think this is very unsafe and it appears to explain the bug report http://bugs.debian.org/508527. On MTU change,