Re: [E1000-devel] [PATCH] igbvf: avoid name clash between PF and VF

2010-06-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 10:53 +0200, Stefan Assmann wrote: From: Stefan Assmann sassm...@redhat.com It looks like the VFs get initialized before all the PFs are. Therefore the udev mapping MAC - ethX (for PFs) gets screwed because the VFs may grab the ethX interface names (reserved by udev)

Re: [E1000-devel] very weird dhcp problem ...

2010-06-30 Thread Allan, Bruce W
On Wednesday, June 30, 2010 10:09 AM, K. Posern wrote: Hi, Thanks for the answer! Just to confirm that my problem is clear: pump and dhcpcd work, but only when I invoke it on the command line. I checked what my colleagues with their Ubuntu distros use: dhclient v3.1 I tried

Re: [E1000-devel] [PATCH] igbvf: avoid name clash between PF and VF

2010-06-30 Thread Casey Leedom
| From: Stefan Assmann sassm...@redhat.com | Date: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 01:53 am | | This is not a udev bug since udev doesn't create persistent rules for | VFs as their MAC address changes every reboot. | | To avoid this problem we could change the kernel name for the VFs and | thus avoid

Re: [E1000-devel] [PATCH net-next-2.6 1/3] ethtool: Change ethtool_op_set_flags to validate flags

2010-06-30 Thread David Miller
From: Ben Hutchings bhutchi...@solarflare.com Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:44:32 +0100 ethtool_op_set_flags() does not check for unsupported flags, and has no way of doing so. This means it is not suitable for use as a default implementation of ethtool_ops::set_flags. Add a 'supported'