Rats. I mirrored your setup here, but I still can't reproduce the
problem. I still suspect this is a bad driver <=> firmware interaction.
Can you apply the following patch and show me the resulting syslog
entries? The patch is just making sure the firmware request to shutdown
really goes through.
diff --git a/drivers/net/tg3.c b/drivers/net/tg3.c
index 46a3f86..900e28b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tg3.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tg3.c
@@ -1124,6 +1124,9 @@ static void tg3_wait_for_event_ack(struct tg3 *tp)
break;
udelay(8);
}
+
+ if (i == delay_cnt)
+ printk( KERN_WARNING "Firmware didn't ack driver event!\n" );
}
/* tp->lock is held. */
@@ -6330,12 +6333,16 @@ static void tg3_stop_fw(struct tg3 *tp)
/* Wait for RX cpu to ACK the previous event. */
tg3_wait_for_event_ack(tp);
+ printk( KERN_NOTICE "%s: Stopping firmware.\n", tp->dev->name );
+
tg3_write_mem(tp, NIC_SRAM_FW_CMD_MBOX, FWCMD_NICDRV_PAUSE_FW);
tg3_generate_fw_event(tp);
/* Wait for RX cpu to ACK this event. */
tg3_wait_for_event_ack(tp);
+
+ printk( KERN_NOTICE "%s: Operation completed.\n", tp->dev->name );
}
}
@@ -7537,6 +7544,8 @@ static void tg3_timer(unsigned long __opaque)
!(tp->tg3_flags3 & TG3_FLG3_ENABLE_APE)) {
tg3_wait_for_event_ack(tp);
+ printk( KERN_NOTICE "%s: Sending keepalive event.\n", tp->dev->name );
+
tg3_write_mem(tp, NIC_SRAM_FW_CMD_MBOX,
FWCMD_NICDRV_ALIVE3);
tg3_write_mem(tp, NIC_SRAM_FW_CMD_LEN_MBOX, 4);
--
