From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] r8169: restore mac addr in rtl8169_remove_one and rtl_shutdown Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:21:57 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20091129.002157.14823135.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1259087166-14558-1-git-send-email-ivecera@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, romieu@fr.zoreil.com To: ivecera@redhat.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:38019 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754135AbZK2IVv (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Nov 2009 03:21:51 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1259087166-14558-1-git-send-email-ivecera@redhat.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Ivan Vecera Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:26:06 +0100 > The newer chipsets (all PCI-E) are known that they need full power cycle > (AC or battery removal) to reset MAC address to a hardwired one. Previous > patch to address this problem loads the original MAC address from EEPROM. > But it brought other problem for which it is necessary to introduce a new > module parameter. > However, it might suffice to restore the initial MAC address before > shutdown/reboot/kexec and when removing the module. > > Signed-off-by: Ivan Vecera Francois, any comments?