Bug#537502: D-I incorrectly expects firmware requests on module load
On 11/23/2010 04:53 PM, Joey Hess wrote:
> Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen wrote:
>> I have logged interesting events to tty3, so I know it gets there, and I
>> have looked at e100.c, so I know it has to have been up'ed first.
>>
>> Ok, just found the source for the first up:
>>
>> bottom of packages/hw-detect/ethdetect.sh:
>>> # Some modules only try to load firmware once brought up. So bring up and
>>> # then down all interfaces.
>
> Ah right. It's been a while since I wrote that code and I never
> got a chance to test it since the system where I'd seen the problem
> was already in production.
Same problem here, but got another box to debug it on.
> This patch will probably do it. Can you test it?
It does, thanks. It also doesn't seem to have any problems with calling
`ip link set up` right after modprobe, where I was talking about letting
it sleep.
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Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen
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