Re: [patch for 2.6.25? 1/3] forcedeth: mac address fix

[Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>]

akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote:
> From: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>
> 
> This critical patch fixes a mac address issue recently introduced.  If the
> device's mac address was in correct order and the flag
> NVREG_TRANSMITPOLL_MAC_ADDR_REV was set, during nv_remove the flag would get
> cleared.  During next load, the mac address would get reversed because the
> flag is missing.
> 
> As it has been indicated previously, the flag is cleared across a low power
> transition.  Therefore, the driver should set the mac address back into the
> reversed order when clearing the flag.
> 
> Also, the driver should set back the flag after a low power transition to
> protect against kexec command calling nv_probe a second time.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>
> Cc: "Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> ---
> 
>  drivers/net/forcedeth.c |   26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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