Subject: Re: [PATCH] e1000e: Fix usage under kexec

From: Stefan Assmann <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:21:40 +0100

On 09.11.2009 21:25, Sven Anders wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> We're experiencing the following problem:
> 
> We start a minimal linux system, prepare the system and start the
> final system via kexec.
> On two different systems (one with a 82573 and one with a 82574),
> the driver cannot initialize the network hardware, because the PHY
> is not recognized.
> 
> We get the following error:
>   e1000e: probe of 0000:02:00.0 failed with error -2

Hi Sven,

have a look at the following thread, it seems very similar.
http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-netdev/2009/3/7/5114394

  Stefan
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