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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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