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

From: Michael Ellerman <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 12:11:16 +1100

On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 13:40 -0600, Santiago Leon wrote:
> From: Michael Ellerman <[email-masked]>
> 
> 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 <[email-masked]>
> Acked-by: Anton Blanchard <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: Santiago Leon <[email-masked]>
> ---
> 
>   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.

cheers

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