Bug#497931: forcedeth: don't work after resume

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 10:41:57PM +0100, Colomban Wendling wrote:
> Colomban Wendling a écrit :
> > Moritz Muehlenhoff a écrit :
> >   
> >> Could you try to reproduce this with a current 2.6.28-rcX
> >> kernel? You can find the .config file from the current Debian
> >> kernels under /boot
> >>
> >> If the problem still persists, could you file a bug at
> >> bugzilla.kernel.org?
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>         Moritz
> >>   
> >>     
> > Hi,
> >
> > Just to inform you that I haven't forgotten this bug, but for now I have
> > some problems on trying with 2.6.28-rc9: [???]
> >
> > Regards,
> > Colomban
> >   
> Hi again,
> 
> Well, I have finally thought about a solution and it works (3 computers,
> 4 Ethernet cards and one SSH connexion).
> What I could see now is that:
> 1) with the official 2.6.28-rc9, the kernel doesn't freeze if I unload
> the forcedeth driver after resume, but the driver don't work better, no
> connexions seems possible after resume (link seems not to be detected).
> 2) with the Lenny's 2.6.26 and with *or without* any proprietary driver
> (ath_pci & co, nvidia), the problem is the same (proprietary drivers
> seems not to be the cause of the freeze).
> 
> Hum, I've found a similar bug on the Linux kernel's bugtracker and added
> a comment to it (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10487#c9) -
> sorry to not have seen it before. But the kernel freeze is a Debian or
> Linux < 2.6.28-rc9 bug.

Thanks for the feedback, I'm marking that version as forwarded.

Cheers,
        Moritz