From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
To: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com>,
e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] e1000: "eeprom checksum is not valid" after kexec
Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 17:24:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200905111724.12606.rjw@sisk.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A0836CA.5070709@gmail.com>
On Monday 11 May 2009, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 04/24/2009 06:09 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > My understanding is that the commit pointed to by Jiri caused a problem
> > if the current mainline kernel was kexeced from an older kernel (2.6.27.x from
> > openSUSE-11.1 in this particular case), because the older kernel didn't
> > have the recent network driver fixes applied. Is this correct?
>
> Exactly!
>
> > Also, I'm still interested in whether or not removig the following three lines:
> >
> > /* Check if we're already there */
> > if (dev->current_state == state)
> > return 0;
> >
> > from pci_set_power_state() in the current mainline kernel fixes the problem
> > in the configuration where it is readily reproducible.
>
> After removing those lines, the problem still persists:
> e1000: 0000:02:01.0: e1000_probe: The EEPROM Checksum Is Not Valid
So it's more complicated than I thought. Well ...
What if the driver in question is rmmoded before kexec?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-11 15:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-23 13:36 Jiri Slaby
2009-04-23 14:10 ` [E1000-devel] " Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
2009-04-23 14:30 ` Jiri Slaby
2009-04-23 14:41 ` Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
2009-04-23 20:40 ` Jiri Slaby
2009-04-23 21:17 ` Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
2009-04-24 16:09 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-05-11 14:31 ` Jiri Slaby
2009-05-11 15:24 ` Rafael J. Wysocki [this message]
2009-05-11 15:31 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-04-23 15:15 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-04-23 15:36 ` Jiri Slaby
2009-04-23 21:48 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
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