netdev - Re: [PATCH] sh_eth: Fix lost MAC address on kexec

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Message-ID: <1425091721.4444.91.camel@xylophone.i.decadent.org.uk>
Date:	Sat, 28 Feb 2015 02:48:41 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@...ethink.co.uk>
To:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <nobuhiro.iwamatsu.yj@...esas.com>,
	Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>,
	Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@...il.com>,
	Kevin Hilman <khilman@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-sh@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sh_eth: Fix lost MAC address on kexec

On Fri, 2015-02-27 at 17:16 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Commit 740c7f31c094703c ("sh_eth: Ensure DMA engines are stopped before
> freeing buffers") added a call to sh_eth_reset() to the
> sh_eth_set_ringparam() and sh_eth_close() paths.
> 
> However, setting the software reset bit(s) in the EDMR register resets
> the MAC Address Registers to zero. Hence after kexec, the new kernel
> doesn't detect a valid MAC address and assigns a random MAC address,
> breaking DHCP.
[...]

Sorry about that.  This would also affect removing and reloading the
driver as a module, but currently I always have it built in and don't
use kexec.

Ben.


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