Subject: Re: Kernel oops on setting sky2 interfaces down

From: Mike McCormack <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 07:50:38 +0900

Rene Mayrhofer wrote:

> What would be the simplest change to stop disabling phy when the last
> device goes down?

Commenting out the following line should stop all the phys from powering off:

sky2_phy_power_down(hw, port);

If you have a chance, please test "sky2: Add a mutex around ethtools operations" also.
it probably won't fix the problem you're seeing, but you never know...

thanks,

Mike