Re: [Fastboot] Re: Re: tg3: issue for reboot/kexec

Haren Myneni
2005-07-01T01:18:21Z

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Eric W. Biederman wrote:

>A couple stray bits of feedback. Downing the interface is generally
>a user space requirement like unmounting filesystems.
>/sbin/kexec and /sbin/reboot both perform this operation so I don't
>see how this bug was hit.
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Thanks for your feedback. We are still working on kexec tools for PPC64.
In the mean time, I was using a temporary tool which does not do ifdown.
I was in the impression that the kexec boot will be successful since the
normal kexec code path (kernel/sys.c) contains device_shutdown/reboot
notifier. It turns out I am wrong.

Thanks
Haren