From: Satyam Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Based upon initial work by Keiichi Kii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
Avoid unnecessarily disabling interrupts and calling netpoll_send_udp() if the corresponding local interface is not up. Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Keiichi Kii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/netconsole.c | 18 +++++++++--------- 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/net/netconsole.c~netconsole-use-netif_running-in-write_msg drivers/net/netconsole.c --- a/drivers/net/netconsole.c~netconsole-use-netif_running-in-write_msg +++ a/drivers/net/netconsole.c @@ -75,16 +75,16 @@ static void write_msg(struct console *co int frag, left; unsigned long flags; - local_irq_save(flags); - - for (left = len; left;) { - frag = min(left, MAX_PRINT_CHUNK); - netpoll_send_udp(&np, msg, frag); - msg += frag; - left -= frag; + if (netif_running(np.dev)) { + local_irq_save(flags); + for (left = len; left;) { + frag = min(left, MAX_PRINT_CHUNK); + netpoll_send_udp(&np, msg, frag); + msg += frag; + left -= frag; + } + local_irq_restore(flags); } - - local_irq_restore(flags); } static struct console netconsole = { _ - 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