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To: Jan-Bernd Themann <ossthema@de.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][2.6.26] ehea: set mac address fix
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Jan-Bernd Themann wrote:
> eHEA has to call firmware functions in order to change the mac address
> of a logical port. This patch checks if the logical port is up
> when calling the register / deregister mac address calls. If the port
> is down these firmware calls would fail and are therefore not executed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan-Bernd Themann <themann@de.ibm.com>

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