Re: r8169 mac address change (was Re: [0/3] 2.6.19-rc2: knownregressions)

[Guennadi Liakhovetski]

On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:

> Ok, with just __rtl8169_set_mac_addr disabled it works. With netconsole 
> disabled, and your phy_reset patch applied it seems to still work. The 

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.

Thanks
Guennadi
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Guennadi Liakhovetski
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