On Wed, 2010-12-29 at 21:57 +0100, Angelo Dureghello wrote:

the kernel is a main line kernel. Then yes, i am still using uclinux 
tree for libc/tools.

Does it still occur if you remove the debug line below?
---
 drivers/net/dm9000.c |    2 --
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/dm9000.c b/drivers/net/dm9000.c
index 2d4c4fc..c774430 100644
--- a/drivers/net/dm9000.c
+++ b/drivers/net/dm9000.c

@@ -1077,8 +1077,6 @@ static irqreturn_t dm9000_interrupt(int irq, void *dev_id)
 	unsigned long flags;
 	u8 reg_save;
 
-	dm9000_dbg(db, 3, "entering %s\n", __func__);
-
 	/* A real interrupt coming */
 
 	/* holders of db->lock must always block IRQs */