From: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
To: jgarzik@pobox.com
Cc: linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: ibmveth: Harden driver initilisation for kexec
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 12:11:16 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1143421876.7795.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44074A22.8060705@us.ibm.com>
On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 13:40 -0600, Santiago Leon wrote:
> From: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
>
> After a kexec the veth driver will fail when trying to register with the
> Hypervisor because the previous kernel has not unregistered.
>
> So if the registration fails, we unregister and then try again.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
> Acked-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
> Signed-off-by: Santiago Leon <santil@us.ibm.com>
> ---
>
> drivers/net/ibmveth.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
> 1 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
Looks like this hit the floor. Any chance of getting it into to 2.6.17
Jeff? AFAICT it should still apply cleanly.
cheers
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Michael Ellerman
IBM OzLabs
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20060131041055.5623C68A46@ozlabs.org>
[not found] ` <20060131042903.GF28896@krispykreme>
2006-03-02 19:40 ` [PATCH] powerpc: ibmveth: Harden driver initilisation for kexec Santiago Leon
2006-03-03 0:22 ` Michael Ellerman
2006-03-03 0:34 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-03-03 1:00 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-03-03 1:10 ` Michael Ellerman
2006-03-03 4:12 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-03-03 1:04 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-03-03 2:11 ` Michael Ellerman
2006-03-27 1:11 ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
2006-04-26 10:37 ` Michael Ellerman
2006-04-26 10:37 ` Michael Ellerman
2006-04-28 19:51 ` Santiago Leon
2006-04-28 19:51 ` Santiago Leon
2006-08-29 12:58 ` Michael Ellerman
2006-08-29 12:58 ` Michael Ellerman
2006-09-18 4:31 Michael Ellerman
2006-09-18 4:31 ` Michael Ellerman
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