Re: Disabling the ethernet driver !!!

[Michael Hohmuth]

Frank Mehnert <address@hidden> writes:

> there is a function eth_disable() in netboot/config.c but nobody
> uses this function. Because of this, the receive function of some
> network cards will not be disabled, e.g. when using the Tulip
> driver. If we not re-initializing the network card after booting
> and change the memory the receive descriptor of the network driver
> are situated, we loose.

As an aside, to stress how disgusting this problem can be, let me tell
you that prior to Frank finding this bug, we had a student that lost
almost two weeks trying to find the piece of code that pokes random
data into some of his data structures.

Michael
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