[PATCH] net/ethernet: cpsw: Bugfix interrupts before enabling napi
David Miller
davem at davemloft.net
Thu Oct 17 15:48:44 EDT 2013
From: Markus Pargmann <mpa at pengutronix.de>
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2013 21:17:01 +0200
> If interrupts happen before napi_enable was called, the driver will not
> work as expected. Network transmissions are impossible in this state.
> This bug can be reproduced easily by restarting the network interface in
> a loop. After some time any network transmissions on the network
> interface will fail.
>
> This patch fixes the bug by enabling napi before enabling the network
> interface interrupts.
>
> Signed-off-by: Markus Pargmann <mpa at pengutronix.de>
Applied, thanks.
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