Re: 2.3.47 tulip lockup

From: Andre Hedrick (andre@suse.com)
Date: Thu Feb 24 2000 - 06:54:45 EST


The INIT of 'tp->tx_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED;' is not early enough!
If it is not set prior to the first "tulip_outl_CSR6(...)" callout.....
KABOOM......OOPS............CRASH!!!!!

Bundled this earlier to Linus and it never made it........

On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Richard Henderson wrote:

> Where did the set of changes between 2.3.46 and 2.3.47 come from?
> I have a "Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX (rev 20)" in one of
> my alphas and the new driver wedges the machine solid.
>
> I havn't tried to debug it past `revert to 2.3.46 driver works'.
>
>
> r~
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Andre Hedrick
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