From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760147AbYFJWWR (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:22:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756748AbYFJWV7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:21:59 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:38981 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754293AbYFJWV5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:21:57 -0400 Message-ID: <484EFE82.6080003@garzik.org> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:21:54 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan-Bernd Themann CC: netdev , Christoph Raisch , Jan-Bernd Themann , linux-kernel , linux-ppc , Marcus Eder , Thomas Klein , hering2@de.ibm.com Subject: Re: [PATCH][2.6.26] ehea: set mac address fix References: <200806091617.38396.ossthema@de.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <200806091617.38396.ossthema@de.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.4 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.2.4 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.4 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 applied