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+From: Gerald Schaefer <geraldsc@de.ibm.com>
+Subject: qeth: unregister MAC addresses during recovery.
+References: bnc#484767,LTC#52200
+
+Symptom: After thousands of recovery cycles no more MAC addresses are
+registered at z/VM GuestLAN adapter.
+Problem: MAC address table of GuestLAN adapter full.
+Solution: Unregister MAC addresses from device (layer 2) during
+recovery cycle. When the device is set online the MAC
+addresses are registered again on the device.
+
+Acked-by: John Jolly <jjolly@suse.de>
+---
+Index: linux-sles11/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c
+===================================================================
+--- linux-sles11.orig/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c
++++ linux-sles11/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c
+@@ -388,7 +388,8 @@ static int qeth_l2_stop_card(struct qeth
+ dev_close(card->dev);
+ rtnl_unlock();
+ }
+- if (!card->use_hard_stop) {
++ if (!card->use_hard_stop ||
++ recovery_mode) {
+ __u8 *mac = &card->dev->dev_addr[0];
+ rc = qeth_l2_send_delmac(card, mac);
+ QETH_DBF_TEXT_(SETUP, 2, "Lerr%d", rc);
+@@ -397,7 +398,8 @@ static int qeth_l2_stop_card(struct qeth
+ }
+ if (card->state == CARD_STATE_SOFTSETUP) {
+ qeth_l2_process_vlans(card, 1);
+- if (!card->use_hard_stop)
++ if (!card->use_hard_stop ||
++ recovery_mode)
+ qeth_l2_del_all_mc(card);
+ qeth_clear_ipacmd_list(card);
+ card->state = CARD_STATE_HARDSETUP;