New: forcedeth seems to switch off eth on shutdown

Bugme-new Andrew Morton 1 participant 1 message Apr 15, 2009 1 message not in the archive

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Quoted 27 lines · On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 07:00:54 GMT [email protected] wrote:

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13072
           Summary: forcedeth seems to switch off eth on shutdown
           Product: Drivers
           Version: 2.5
    Kernel Version: 2.6.29.1
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
              Tree: Mainline
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P1
         Component: Network
        AssignedTo: [email protected]
        ReportedBy: [email protected]
        Regression: No
Hello,
I've built a vanilla 2.6.29.1 on a Debian Lenny (stable) system. After recognizing that I will not get lirc working on 2.6.29, I wanted to switch back to 2.6.28.9. But on any other kernel than 2.6.29.1, the network interface is down (no led's no link).
Ifconfig on 2.6.28.9 is reporting "no link" for eth0, so the driver seems to be loaded fine...

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The forcedeth from 2.6.29.1 seems to "shut down" the interface on shutdown, so no other kernel can use it.

Seems to be a 2.6.28->2.6.29 regression.