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Date:      Thu, 4 Aug 2005 14:17:22 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>
Cc:        sparc64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Patch to fix locking nits in hme
Message-ID:  <200508041417.23972.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050804200505.A67677@newtrinity.zeist.de>
References:  <200508041253.18343.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20050804200505.A67677@newtrinity.zeist.de>

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On Thursday 04 August 2005 02:05 pm, Marius Strobl wrote:
> 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.

Ok.  I had assumed it was commented out due to locking problems rather than 
that.  I can comment it back out.

-- 
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