From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270740AbTG0LDy (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jul 2003 07:03:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270741AbTG0LDy (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jul 2003 07:03:54 -0400 Received: from lidskialf.net ([62.3.233.115]:41670 "EHLO beyond.lidskialf.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270740AbTG0LDw (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jul 2003 07:03:52 -0400 From: Andrew de Quincey To: Rahul Karnik , Marcelo Penna Guerra Subject: Re: [PATCH] nvidia nforce 1.0-261 nvnet for kernel 2.5 Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 12:19:05 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 Cc: lkml , Laurens , Jeff Garzik References: <200307262309.20074.adq_dvb@lidskialf.net> <200307262326.49638.eu@marcelopenna.org> <3F236A4A.2090302@genebrew.com> In-Reply-To: <3F236A4A.2090302@genebrew.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200307271219.05840.adq_dvb@lidskialf.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sunday 27 July 2003 06:59, Rahul Karnik wrote: > Marcelo Penna Guerra wrote: > > Hi, > > > >>From nvnet.c: > > > > /* > > * Mac address is loaded at boot time into h/w reg, but it's loaded > > backwards > > * we get the address, save it, and reverse it. The saved value is > > loaded * back into address at close time. > > */ > > > > PRINTK(DEBUG_INIT, "nvnet_init - get mac address\n"); > > priv->hwapi->pfnGetNodeAddress(priv->hwapi->pADCX, priv- > > > >>original_mac_addr); > > Well, I wanted to reload the module with debug on, so I tried: > > # modprobe -r nvnet > Segmentation fault > > #lsmod > > At this point lsmod just hung. > > Tried shutting down the computer, and it was stuck during shutdown. > Seems like the refcounting is not really working, or perhaps there are > too many cycles happening. What happens if you do the following with a > module: > > try_module_get > MOD_INC_USE_COUNT > MOD_DEC_USE_COUNT > module_put > > > But I don't think the only thing missing is the MAC address. You could > > try to manually set it in the source itself and see if anything works. > > I'll just add it in BIOS and try with AMD8111. No desire to futz around > with the nvnet source, where half of what is going on is a complete > black box (priv->hwapi, "priv" is definitely *private*). > > Thanks, > Rahul > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/