Upakul Barkakaty wrote:
Hi all, I observed that when the Ethernet initialization fails, it is not properly halting the operation and exiting. On walking through the Networking files, I saw that the eth_init() in eth.c either returns a 0 or 1. Now, in the NetLoop() in net.c file, from where the eth_init() gets called, checks the condition if (eth_init(bd) < 0) { eth_halt(); return(-1); } which is thus never true. Thus the network operation, never exits gracefully, if Ethernet init fails. Any of you, have any clues about this??
This is a known bug. The problem is that it's been around for so long, people don't realize what's happening. If you fix it, you might break something else.
I still think it should be fixed. In fact, I was planning on submitting a patch next month for it.