From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com> Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 15:19:40 -0500 Ben Greear wrote: > In case you are using intel's 1.8.37 driver, I can cause a kernel panic > in it by trying to reset the transceiver through MII IOCTLs.. I've > been passing email with their support, so hopefully it will be resolved > soon. ... Anyway, this is e100 version 2.0.19, with lots of changes by the Intel folks at my request. Ben, I'm going to put your report in the same classification as "root cat'd crap into /dev/kmem and the kernel crashed". If you are programming the PHY directly with MII IOCTLs you are on your own. I personally refuse to monitor how the user pokes at the MII in my drivers to try and cope with the user putting the PHY into a weird state that the driver would otherwise never need to deal with. It is not a bug, pure and simple. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
