Re: [Kgdb-bugreport] KGDBoe doesn't work for 2.6.16 on ppc (EMAC driver)

[Tom R. <tr...@ke...>]

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."

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Tom Rini
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