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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][2.6.26] ehea: set mac address fix
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:21:54 -0400
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	Christoph Raisch <raisch@de.ibm.com>,
	Jan-Bernd Themann <themann@de.ibm.com>,
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	Marcus Eder <meder@de.ibm.com>,
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Jan-Bernd Themann wrote:
> eHEA has to call firmware functions in order to change the mac address
> of a logical port. This patch checks if the logical port is up
> when calling the register / deregister mac address calls. If the port
> is down these firmware calls would fail and are therefore not executed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan-Bernd Themann <themann@de.ibm.com>

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