On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 03:01:29PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
quoted text
> If sky2 interface is netconsoling, then
> 
> 	ifconfig down; ifconfig up
> 
> leads to hard hang after printing
> 
> 	sky2 eth0: enabling interface
> 
> SysRq+b reboots the box, nothing else works (or prints something).
> 
> This is with 2.6.28.2 and 2.6.29-rc2-5ee810072175042775e39bdd3eaaa68884c27805.
> Most certainly was there since day one.
> 
> Haven't investigated further.

Well, duh...


[PATCH] sky2: fix hard hang with netconsoling and iface going up

Printing anything over netconsole before hw is up and running is,
of course, not going to work.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
---

 drivers/net/sky2.c |    6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/sky2.c
+++ b/drivers/net/sky2.c
@@ -1403,9 +1403,6 @@ static int sky2_up(struct net_device *dev)
 
  	}
 
-	if (netif_msg_ifup(sky2))
-		printk(KERN_INFO PFX "%s: enabling interface\n", dev->name);
-
 	netif_carrier_off(dev);
 
 	/* must be power of 2 */
@@ -1484,6 +1481,9 @@ static int sky2_up(struct net_device *dev)
 	sky2_write32(hw, B0_IMSK, imask);
 
 	sky2_set_multicast(dev);
+
+	if (netif_msg_ifup(sky2))
+		printk(KERN_INFO PFX "%s: enabling interface\n", dev->name);
 	return 0;
 
 err_out:
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