[PATCH 1/3] ppc64: iseries_veth: Don't send packets to LPARs which aren't up

[Michael Ellerman]

On Tue, 10 May 2005 09:04, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Tue, 10 May 2005 03:27, David Howells wrote:
> > Michael Ellerman <michael at ellerman.id.au> wrote:
> > > The iseries_veth driver has a logic bug which means it will erroneously
> > > send packets to LPARs for which we don't have a connection.
> >
> > Any particular versions of the kernel?
>
> 2.6.* I believe. Certainly RHEL4's version is broken.
>
> I haven't got an RHEL3 kernel handy, but the 2.6 driver was based on the
> 2.4 version I believe, so it's possible the bug is in 2.4 too.

Well something was based on something, no one's quite sure. But the 2.4 driver 
looks ok, it doesn't have this code at all.

cheers

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