From: "Matt Carlson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:38:37 -0800
> When 5761 devices boot the machine using PXEboot, PXE leaves the device > active when it terminates. The tg3 driver has code to detect this > condition and resets the device during initialization. On 5761 devices, > device resets involve sending a driver state update message to the APE > on the 5761. However, during this initialization stage, communications > to the APE registers have not yet been set up. The driver then > dereferences a NULL pointer and crashes the machine. The fix is to move > the APE register access setup earlier in the initialization code to > cover this condition. > > Signed-off-by: Matt Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Patch applied. - 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
