Patch to fix locking nits in hme
Marius Strobl
marius at alchemy.franken.de
Thu Aug 4 18:05:13 GMT 2005
On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 12:53:17PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> I have a patch to fix several nits in the hme(4) driver's locking including:
>
> - Using the driver lock instead of Giant in a busdma callback.
> - Using callout_drain() in detach.
> - Locking access to the mii registers with the driver lock.
> - Clearing the RUNNING and OACTIVE flags in stop.
> - Re-enabling updating the media from hme_init_locked().
> - Making the mutex non-recursive.
> - Fixing locking in ioctl.
>
> Patch is at http://www.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/hme_locking.patch
>
@@ -871,11 +859,7 @@
#endif
/* Set the current media. */
- /*
- * HME_UNLOCK(sc);
- * mii_mediachg(sc->sc_mii);
- * HME_LOCK(sc);
- */
+ mii_mediachg(sc->sc_mii);
Calling mii_mediachg() will trigger some unsolved problems with
the MIF configuration (most likely) which used to cause dhclient(8)
not working on Ultra 2 and result in no link at all on Netra T1.
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