Bug 581654
| Summary: | RTL-8169 Gigatit Ethernet network devices mac address changes after soft reboot. | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | Christian Robert <christian.robert07> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Ivan Vecera <ivecera> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Hangbin Liu <haliu> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 5.5 | CC: | ajb, amyagi, hjia, jolsa, jwilson, kzhang, pasteur, tgraf, toracat |
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2011-01-13 21:26:10 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
Christian Robert
2010-04-12 21:10:25 UTC
This issue should be fixed by this upstream commit: 78f1cd0 - r8169: fix broken register writes [http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=78f1cd02457252e1ffbc6caa44a17424a45286b8] I'm going to prepare test packages. There are kernel packages for testing at http://people.redhat.com/ivecera/rhel-5-ivtest/. Could you please try them? I confirm that this kernel fix my problem. The machine
successfully soft rebooted and kept the right MAC address.
# uptime
16:30:58 up 1:01, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
# uname -a
Linux xxxx.polymtl.ca 2.6.18-197.el5.ivtest.1 #1 SMP Tue Apr 27 07:09:22 EDT 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
# ifconfig eth0 | fgrep HWaddr
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0A:CD:19:2E:01
Xtian.
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release. Product Management has requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed products. This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update release. Patch sent for review. http://post-office.corp.redhat.com/archives/rhkernel-list/2010-July/msg01147.html in kernel-2.6.18-209.el5 You can download this test kernel from http://people.redhat.com/jwilson/el5 Detailed testing feedback is always welcomed. *** Bug 637440 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** No such device , use a RTL8111/8168B NIC with the same driver r8169 , but didn't reproduced Code reviewed , linux-2.6-net-r8169-fix-for-broken-register-writes.patch is applied in kernel 2.6.18-236.el5 correctly . An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0017.html |