From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Ellerman Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: ibmveth: Harden driver initilisation for kexec Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 20:37:17 +1000 Message-ID: <1146047837.10735.29.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20060131041055.5623C68A46@ozlabs.org> <20060131042903.GF28896@krispykreme> <44074A22.8060705@us.ibm.com> <1143421876.7795.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> Reply-To: michael@ellerman.id.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-SKjSZuZuzpUdCj3B68We" Cc: anton@samba.org, linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Santiago Leon Return-path: Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:62616 "EHLO ozlabs.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932075AbWDZKiO (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Apr 2006 06:38:14 -0400 To: jgarzik@pobox.com In-Reply-To: <1143421876.7795.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org --=-SKjSZuZuzpUdCj3B68We Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 > >=20 > > After a kexec the veth driver will fail when trying to register with th= e > > Hypervisor because the previous kernel has not unregistered. > >=20 > > So if the registration fails, we unregister and then try again. > >=20 > > Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman > > Acked-by: Anton Blanchard > > Signed-off-by: Santiago Leon > > --- > >=20 > > drivers/net/ibmveth.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ > > 1 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) >=20 > 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 --=20 Michael Ellerman IBM OzLabs wwweb: http://michael.ellerman.id.au phone: +61 2 6212 1183 (tie line 70 21183) We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. - S.M.A.R.T Person --=-SKjSZuZuzpUdCj3B68We Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBET01ddSjSd0sB4dIRAgPPAJsE1EjunTZZhgh5asesW2Ol3Khk1wCffK4d CU2Az5GOxMzhJJrVxpxpVIo= =Pi34 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-SKjSZuZuzpUdCj3B68We--