Emmanuel Fusté <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : [...] > Just to let you know that I swap my pcnet32 with a via-rhine > and I no longer experienced hard machine lock after loading > netconsole.
Any difference if you disable the debug messages in the pcnet32 driver and you apply the patch below ? diff --git a/drivers/net/pcnet32.c b/drivers/net/pcnet32.c index 9c171a7..be4513f 100644 --- a/drivers/net/pcnet32.c +++ b/drivers/net/pcnet32.c @@ -2556,11 +2556,12 @@ pcnet32_interrupt(int irq, void *dev_id) unsigned long ioaddr; u16 csr0; int boguscnt = max_interrupt_work; + unsigned long flags; ioaddr = dev->base_addr; lp = netdev_priv(dev); - spin_lock(&lp->lock); + spin_lock_irqsave(&lp->lock, flags); csr0 = lp->a.read_csr(ioaddr, CSR0); while ((csr0 & 0x8f00) && --boguscnt >= 0) { @@ -2632,7 +2633,7 @@ pcnet32_interrupt(int irq, void *dev_id) printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: exiting interrupt, csr0=%#4.4x.\n", dev->name, lp->a.read_csr(ioaddr, CSR0)); - spin_unlock(&lp->lock); + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&lp->lock, flags); return IRQ_HANDLED; } - 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