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Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 15:25:09 +1000
From: Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>
To: akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc: jeff@...zik.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, yhlu.kernel@...il.com,
aabdulla@...dia.com, jgarzik@...hat.com, ranma+kernel@...edrich.de,
rjw@...k.pl
Subject: Re: [patch for 2.6.27? 6/6] net: forcedeth: call restore mac addr
in nv_shutdown path
On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 02:04:10PM -0700, akpm@...ux-foundation.org wrote:
> From: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
>
> after
>
> | commit f735a2a1a4f2a0f5cd823ce323e82675990469e2
> | Author: Tobias Diedrich <ranma+kernel@...edrich.de>
> | Date: Sun May 18 15:02:37 2008 +0200
> |
> | [netdrvr] forcedeth: setup wake-on-lan before shutting down
> |
> | When hibernating in 'shutdown' mode, after saving the image the suspend hook
> | is not called again.
> | However, if the device is in promiscous mode, wake-on-lan will not work.
> | This adds a shutdown hook to setup wake-on-lan before the final shutdown.
> |
> | Signed-off-by: Tobias Diedrich <ranma+kernel@...edrich.de>
> | Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...hat.com>
>
> my servers with nvidia ck804 and mcp55 will reverse mac address with kexec.
>
> it turns out that we need to restore the mac addr in nv_shutdown().
Does this problem also occur during kdump?
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