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authorStephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>2006-05-11 15:07:28 -0700
committerStephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>2006-05-15 12:35:01 -0700
commit843a46f423a508b3a443a08baa903c6da02f3297 (patch)
tree635b032413590677e32b968e4c301bac3d7af554 /drivers
parentde54bc0f00c23a805f4ad2146c5a1fd5e2abe1e9 (diff)
sky2: prevent dual port receiver problems
When both ports are receiving simultaneously, the receive logic gets confused and may pass up a packet before it is full. This causes hangs, and IP will see lots of garbage packets. There is even the potential for data corruption if a later arriving packet DMA's into freed memory. It looks like a hardware bug because status arrives for a packet but no data is there. Until this bug is worked out, block the user from bringing up both ports at once. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/sky2.c13
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/sky2.c b/drivers/net/sky2.c
index ffd267fab21..62be6d99d05 100644
--- a/drivers/net/sky2.c
+++ b/drivers/net/sky2.c
@@ -1020,8 +1020,19 @@ static int sky2_up(struct net_device *dev)
struct sky2_hw *hw = sky2->hw;
unsigned port = sky2->port;
u32 ramsize, rxspace, imask;
- int err = -ENOMEM;
+ int err;
+ struct net_device *otherdev = hw->dev[sky2->port^1];
+ /* Block bringing up both ports at the same time on a dual port card.
+ * There is an unfixed bug where receiver gets confused and picks up
+ * packets out of order. Until this is fixed, prevent data corruption.
+ */
+ if (otherdev && netif_running(otherdev)) {
+ printk(KERN_INFO PFX "dual port support is disabled.\n");
+ return -EBUSY;
+ }
+
+ err = -ENOMEM;
if (netif_msg_ifup(sky2))
printk(KERN_INFO PFX "%s: enabling interface\n", dev->name);