Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 31 Oct 2006 20:02:39 +0100 (CET) | From | Guennadi Liakhovetski <> | Subject | Re: r8169 mac address change (was Re: [0/3] 2.6.19-rc2: known regressions) |
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On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, Francois Romieu wrote:
> Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de> : > [...] > > The "seems" above was the key word. Once again I had a case, when after > > re-compiling the kernel again with the disabled call to > > __rtl8169_set_mac_addr only ping worked. And a power-off was required to > > recover. So, that phy_reset doesn't seem to be very safe either. > > Can you replace phy_reset by the patch below and try it twice ? > > It's interesting to know if it does not always behave the same.
Well, with that one I booted 3 times, all 3 times it worked. I'll leave it in to see if it ever fails. So, what does it tell us about the set_mac_address thing?
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