Subject: Re: Panic during dump
To: , <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
From: Chris Gilbert <chris@paradox.demon.co.uk>
List: port-arm
Date: 05/06/2002 11:21:41
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Earnshaw" <rearnsha@buzzard.freeserve.co.uk>
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 12:57 AM


>
> Right, finally got some more info on these.
>
> > On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 11:43:50PM +0100, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> >
> >  > I'm getting a panic during the DUMP code.
> >  >
> >  > With the current cats GENERIC kernel I'm getting a panic when I type
> >  >
> >  > ifconfig -a
> >  >
> >  > (Might be due to the missing MII stuff -- see current-users).
> >
>
> Yep, this is in tlp_2114x_isv_tmsw_get().  Looking at this code, it simply
> uses a media-specific hook to do its work.  I guess the hook hasn't been
> initialized  due to the failure to find the mii.  Hmm, shouldn't we bind
> this to some sort of place-holder routine in this case?

Sadly I see this as well.  It was thought to be related to not having a
decent delay() however I think I fixed that recently.  Tlp still doesn't
work for me, I'd suggest using de for now, I'm going to look into this one a
bit further, trying to decide if it's a cats issue or a tlp issue is the
first problem.

Chris