Re: [PATCH] powerpc: ibmveth: Harden driver initilisation for kexec

[Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>]

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On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 12:11 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> 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.

/me knocks politely

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