Subject: Re: Kernel oops on setting sky2 interfaces down

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:54:52 -0700

On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:59:50 +0200
Rene Mayrhofer <[email-masked]> wrote:

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> Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > Looks like the device is disappearing from the PCI bus when
> > brought down.  Can you reproduce it with 2.6.30.2 or 2.6.31-rc3?
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> > Try later kernels.  
> This is, as mentioned in my initial email, unfortunately not an option
> until later kernel support squashfs-lzma again. These embedded
> appliances boot from compact flash with the root FS in squashfs.
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> The question probably is if newer sky2 module sources would compile and
> work with 2.6.28.10. Is this expected to work?

Kernel api (net_device_ops) changes are not in 2.6.28 as remember.