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From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com>,
	e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] e1000: "eeprom checksum is not valid" after kexec
Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 16:31:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A0836CA.5070709@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200904241809.45240.rjw@sisk.pl>

On 04/24/2009 06:09 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> My understanding is that the commit pointed to by Jiri caused a problem
> if the current mainline kernel was kexeced from an older kernel (2.6.27.x from
> openSUSE-11.1 in this particular case), because the older kernel didn't
> have the recent network driver fixes applied.  Is this correct?

Exactly!

> Also, I'm still interested in whether or not removig the following three lines:
> 
>         /* Check if we're already there */
>         if (dev->current_state == state)
>                 return 0;
> 
> from pci_set_power_state() in the current mainline kernel fixes the problem
> in the configuration where it is readily reproducible.

After removing those lines, the problem still persists:
e1000: 0000:02:01.0: e1000_probe: The EEPROM Checksum Is Not Valid




  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-11 14:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-23 13:36 e1000: "eeprom checksum is not valid" after kexec Jiri Slaby
2009-04-23 14:10 ` [E1000-devel] " Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
2009-04-23 14:30   ` Jiri Slaby
2009-04-23 14:41     ` Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
2009-04-23 20:40       ` Jiri Slaby
2009-04-23 21:17         ` Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
2009-04-24 16:09           ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-05-11 14:31             ` Jiri Slaby [this message]
2009-05-11 15:24               ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-05-11 15:31                 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-04-23 15:15 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-04-23 15:36   ` Jiri Slaby
2009-04-23 21:48     ` Rafael J. Wysocki

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