Re: [Kgdb-bugreport] KGDBoe doesn't work for 2.6.16 on ppc (EMAC driver)
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From: Tom R. <tr...@ke...> - 2006-03-31 16:35:37
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On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 04:16:57PM +0530, Girish Shilamkar wrote: > Hi, > While testing kgdboe on ppc m/c I found that kgdboe doesn't work since > ethernet device driver doesn't support polling. > On investigating further I found that PowerPC 4xx EMAC driver has been > re-written from 2.6.15 kernel using NAPI. Absence of netpoll support > causes the kgdboe to fail. > There exists a patch which adds netpoll controller support, it can be > found at: > > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/linuxppc/patch?id=3648 Note that this patch has been rejected as: "I [Eugene Surovegin] just got e-mail forwarded by akpm with this crap and had to write another explanation why this is wrong." -- Tom Rini http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/ |