Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 4223] New: sis900 kernel oop at boot

[Daniele Venzano <webvenza@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 18/feb/05, at 12:20, Herbert Xu wrote:
> OK, this happened because we got preempted before sis900_mii_probe
> finished setting the sis_priv->mii.  Theoretically this can happen
> with SMP as well but I suppose the number of SMP machines with sis900
> is fairly small.
>
> Anyway, the fix is to make sure that sis900_mii_probe is done before
> the device can be opened.  This patch does it by moving the setup
> after register_netdevice into the netdev init function.
I think the patch is ok, but it will not apply with the latest changes  
I sent to Jeff Garzik (see  
<http://gkernel.bkbits.net:8080/netdev-2.6/related/drivers/net/ 
sis900.c?nav=index.html|src/.|src/drivers|src/drivers/net>.
Don't know if this is a problem, since those changes have not yet  
reached Linus tree.

> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Daniele Venzano <webvenza@xxxxxxxxx>

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