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SubjectRe: [PATCH] forcedeth: Fix kexec regression
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On Wednesday, 20 of August 2008, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> writes:
>
> > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
> >
> > forcedeth: Fix kexec regression
> >
> > Fix regression tracked as
> > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11361 and
> > caused by commit f735a2a1a4f2a0f5cd823ce323e82675990469e2
> > ("[netdrvr] forcedeth: setup wake-on-lan before shutting down")
> > that makes network adapters integrated into the NVidia
> > MCP55 chipsets fail to work in kexeced kernels. The problem appears
> > to be that if the adapter is put into D3_hot during ->shutdown(),
> > it cannot be brought back into D0 after kexec (ref.
> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121900062814967&w=4). Therefore,
> > only put forcedeth into D3 during ->shutdown() if the system is to be
> > powered off.
>
> Any chance we can fix this by teaching the forcedeth driver to
> bring a card out of PCI_D3hot?

Maybe, but that's not what I'm able to do at the moment. :-)

Yinghai Lu thinks that the hardware has a problem with that, though.

> The kexec on panic guys are going to need that and it is just generally
> more robust all of the way around than a special case in shutdown
> based on system_state.

Actually, system_state == SYSTEM_POWER_OFF is a special case already, since
it is the only case in which ACPI gets involved.

Thanks,
Rafael


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