Subject: Re: [Fwd: [Bug 7431] New: ohci1394 Oops after a rmmod/modprobe cycle]

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 18:17:45 +1100

On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 08:08 +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 07, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 17:58 +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > > On Sun, Nov 05, Stefan Richter wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Yes, PowerBook G3 Pismo seems affected.
> > > > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=115228
> > > 
> > > This patch does not help. Doing an ip link set dev eth0 up makes no
> > > difference.
> > 
> > What about trying to add a delay between the pmac clock code and the
> > init of the controller ? does that help ?
> 
> no. and it is the rmmod, not the insmod, that hangs the pismo.
> Adding some mdelay to the remove function doesnt help either.

Tried not calling the pmac feature stuff at all in the rmmod ?

I reckon there might be a problem with the cable power control on some
old models like... the pismo :-)

Ben.