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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	mike_phillips@urscorp.com
Subject: Re: [Patch} to fix oops in olympic token ring driver on media disconnect
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:48:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <411D536A.7050206@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040813163527.17aec0b5@lembas.zaitcev.lan>

Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 23:07:16 +0100
> Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Gwe, 2004-08-13 at 20:11, Neil Horman wrote:
>>
>>>the olympic_close routine was waiting on.  This patch cleans that up.
>>>
>>>Tested by me, on 2.4 and 2.6 with good, working results, and no more oopses.
>>
>>Should it not be blocking the IRQs on the chip as well ?
> 
> 
> I assumed that old olympic_close() did, but perhaps it didn't after all.
> There is nothing like the following in it:
> 
> +#define DISABLE_IRQS(base_addr) do { \
> +   writel(LISR_LIE,(base_addr)+LISR_RWM);\
> +   writel(SISR_MI,(base_addr)+SISR_RWM);\
> +} while(0)
> 
> This is curious. If something was never used, how do we know if it works?
> Maybe it's safer just to leave things as Neil did.


Well, regardless, Neil's patch is IMO a good first step.

There is plenty of work in olympic for any motivated person :)

	Jeff



  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-13 23:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-13 19:11 Neil Horman
2004-08-13 22:07 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-13 23:35   ` Pete Zaitcev
2004-08-13 23:48     ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2004-08-14  0:06       ` Neil Horman
2004-08-16 15:10       ` Mike_Phillips
2004-08-16 15:18         ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-17  0:08         ` Pete Zaitcev
2004-08-17  0:42         ` Neil Horman

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