Re: [PATCH] ibm_newemac: Don't call dev_mc_add() before device is registered

2008-08-27 Thread Jeff Garzik

Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

We must not call dev_mc_add() from within our HW configure which happens
before we initialize and register the netdev. Do it in open() instead.

Thanks to Sebastian Siewior for tracking it down. 


Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---

This fixes an uninitialized spinlock warning (and possibly more).

Please apply.


applied


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[PATCH] ibm_newemac: Don't call dev_mc_add() before device is registered

2008-08-17 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
We must not call dev_mc_add() from within our HW configure which happens
before we initialize and register the netdev. Do it in open() instead.

Thanks to Sebastian Siewior for tracking it down. 

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---

This fixes an uninitialized spinlock warning (and possibly more).

Please apply.

Cheers,
Ben.

Index: linux-work/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c
===
--- linux-work.orig/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c  2008-08-14 
13:36:10.0 +1000
+++ linux-work/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c   2008-08-14 13:42:10.0 
+1000
@@ -663,9 +663,6 @@ static int emac_configure(struct emac_in
if (emac_phy_gpcs(dev-phy.mode))
emac_mii_reset_phy(dev-phy);
 
-   /* Required for Pause packet support in EMAC */
-   dev_mc_add(ndev, default_mcast_addr, sizeof(default_mcast_addr), 1);
-
return 0;
 }
 
@@ -1150,6 +1147,9 @@ static int emac_open(struct net_device *
} else
netif_carrier_on(dev-ndev);
 
+   /* Required for Pause packet support in EMAC */
+   dev_mc_add(ndev, default_mcast_addr, sizeof(default_mcast_addr), 1);
+
emac_configure(dev);
mal_poll_add(dev-mal, dev-commac);
mal_enable_tx_channel(dev-mal, dev-mal_tx_chan);


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