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SubjectRe: kernel 2.6.33.7 (the highest version with RT patch) does not work with b44 ethernet controller
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Le jeudi 04 novembre 2010 à 15:06 +0100, Wojtek Zabolotny a écrit :
> I have updated my RT-kernel to version 2.6.33.7-rt29 (the newest RT
> version),
> and I've found that I've lost Ethernet connectivity.
> In the logs I could see messages like this:
> Nov 2 09:30:28 wzlaphp kernel: b44: eth0: powering down PHY
> Nov 2 09:30:28 wzlaphp kernel: b44: eth0: BUG! Timeout waiting for bit
> 00000002 of register 42c to clear.
> Nov 2 09:30:32 wzlaphp kernel: b44: eth0: BUG! Timeout waiting for bit
> 80000000 of register 428 to clear.
>
> I was not sure whether the probem is related to the 2.6.33.7 kernel
> itself or with the RT patch, so I've compiled also the unpatched version
> of 2.6.33.7
>
> It is also not able to communicate with my Ethernet controller, but now
> the error messages are different:
>
> b44 0000:02:0e.0: PCI INT A disabled
> b44 0000:02:0e.0: BAR 0: set to [mem 0xf4108000-0xf4109fff] (PCI address
> [0xf4108000-0xf4109fff]
> b44 0000:02:0e.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
> ssb: Core 0 found: Fast Ethernet (cc 0x806, rev 0x07, vendor 0x4243)
> ssb: Core 1 found: V90 (cc 0x807, rev 0x03, vendor 0x4243)
> ssb: Core 2 found: PCI (cc 0x804, rev 0x0A, vendor 0x4243)
> ssb: Sonics Silicon Backplane found on PCI device 0000:02:0e.0
> b44.c:v2.0
> b44: Invalid MAC address found in EEPROM
> b44 ssb1:0: Problem fetching invariants of chip, aborting.
> b44: probe of ssb1:0 failed with error -22
>
> Now I'm using the old 2.6.33.5-rt23 kernel, and everything works perfectly.
>

Could you print the Invalid MAC address ?


diff --git a/drivers/net/b44.c b/drivers/net/b44.c
index c6e8631..b1b9a2b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/b44.c
+++ b/drivers/net/b44.c
@@ -2092,7 +2092,7 @@ static int __devinit b44_get_invariants(struct b44 *bp)
memcpy(bp->dev->dev_addr, addr, 6);

if (!is_valid_ether_addr(&bp->dev->dev_addr[0])){
- pr_err("Invalid MAC address found in EEPROM\n");
+ pr_err("Invalid MAC address %pM found in EEPROM\n", bp->dev->dev_addr);
return -EINVAL;
}


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