3c59x with linuxppc

[Andreas Tobler]

Bogdan Costescu wrote: 
> There are already a lot of printk's in the code, you just have to set
> vortex_debug to a higher value.
 
This is not enough, I already set the debug level to 6.

> Set_rx_mode should be called only once from vortex_open AFAIK. It is also
> called from vortex_error (so this can happen an unlimited number of
> times) on HostError handling; however, just before this there is an error
> message that should appear: 'Host error: FIFO diagnostic register...'
> which is not mentioned by you. Does this message appear?

As I remember from far(mac is at home) no.

> > So my question, is this patch working under intel or other Linuxen?
> 
> Yes, it's working for me on Intel SMP. However, I also have some
> hard-to-reproduce locks which seem to appear after more than 24h of
> continuous high load.
> 
> > I suppose I may have a problem with the spin_lock stuff.
> 
> AFAIK, spinlocks should work the same on different HW architectures; as
> they work for me and Andrew, I seriously doubt that they are guilty.

Well, that's my first idea. 

> I would like to see the messages produced by the driver with a higher
> vortex_debug value (f.e. 5); the existing printk's offer good info about
> what is going on. To get them on the console you should have:
> kern.*          /dev/console
> in your /etc/syslog.conf file.

As soon as I get back home I can send the logs including my printk's.

Later then I try the 2.2.15 too.

Thanks

Andreas
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