From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: buytenh@wantstofly.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
pacman@kosh.dhis.org, tbm@cyrius.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mv643xx_eth: fix PPC DMA breakage
Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 21:16:58 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090517.211658.245399748.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090515235330.GC1727@mail.wantstofly.org>
From: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 01:53:30 +0200
> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 08:39:24PM +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote:
>
>> After 2.6.29, PPC no more admits passing NULL to the dev parameter of
>> the DMA API. The result is a BUG followed by solid lock-up when the
>> mv643xx_eth driver brings an interface up. The following patch makes
>> the driver work on my Pegasos again; it is mostly a search and replace
>> of NULL by mp->dev->dev.parent in dma allocation/freeing/mapping/unmapping
>> functions.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Gabriel Paubert <paubert@iram.es>
>
> Acked-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com>
Applied, thanks everyone.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-18 4:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-15 18:39 [PATCH] mv643xx_eth: fix PPC DMA breakage Gabriel Paubert
2009-05-15 23:53 ` Lennert Buytenhek
2009-05-18 4:16 ` David Miller [this message]
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