ethernet driver fixup for ppc4xx

SVN-Revision: 24328

diff --git a/target/linux/generic/patches-2.6.36/988-ibm_newemac_remove_netif_stop_queue.patch b/target/linux/generic/patches-2.6.36/988-ibm_newemac_remove_netif_stop_queue.patch
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..15d1983
--- /dev/null
+++ b/target/linux/generic/patches-2.6.36/988-ibm_newemac_remove_netif_stop_queue.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+From 811718f071bbd337a823b2827ca3ea2b7205d162 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
+Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 08:49:51 -0700
+Subject: [PATCH] ibm_newemac: Remove netif_stop_queue() in emac_probe().
+
+Touching the queue state before register_netdev is not
+allowed, and besides the queue state before ->open()
+is "don't care"
+
+Reported-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
+Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
+Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
+---
+ drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c |    1 -
+ 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
+
+--- a/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c
++++ b/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c
+@@ -2871,7 +2871,6 @@ static int __devinit emac_probe(struct p
+       SET_ETHTOOL_OPS(ndev, &emac_ethtool_ops);
+ 
+       netif_carrier_off(ndev);
+-      netif_stop_queue(ndev);
+ 
+       err = register_netdev(ndev);
+       if (err) {