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Revision a376e79c6079c2ba6c5fadb0e85a3bb7e465ad89 authored by Ayaz Abdulla on 11 April 2008, 04:30:35 UTC, committed by Jeff Garzik on 12 April 2008, 08:38:12 UTC
This critical patch fixes a mac address issue recently introduced.  If the
device's mac address was in correct order and the flag
NVREG_TRANSMITPOLL_MAC_ADDR_REV was set, during nv_remove the flag would get
cleared.  During next load, the mac address would get reversed because the
flag is missing.

As it has been indicated previously, the flag is cleared across a low power
transition.  Therefore, the driver should set the mac address back into the
reversed order when clearing the flag.

Also, the driver should set back the flag after a low power transition to
protect against kexec command calling nv_probe a second time.

Signed-off-by: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>
Cc: "Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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Tip revision: a376e79c6079c2ba6c5fadb0e85a3bb7e465ad89 authored by Ayaz Abdulla on 11 April 2008, 04:30:35 UTC
forcedeth: mac address fix
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