Commit 75e0de13 authored by Carsten Otte's avatar Carsten Otte Committed by David S. Miller

qeth: Clear mac_bits field when switching between Layer 2 and Layer 3

This patch fixes a problem that occurs when switching from layer 3 to layer 2
mode. Resetting this mac_bits makes sure that we retrieve our mac address from
the card, otherwise the interface simply would'nt work.
Signed-off-by: default avatarCarsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarFrank Blaschka <frank.blaschka@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 6298263a
......@@ -433,6 +433,7 @@ static ssize_t qeth_dev_layer2_store(struct device *dev,
if (card->options.layer2 == newdis)
goto out;
else {
card->info.mac_bits = 0;
if (card->discipline.ccwgdriver) {
card->discipline.ccwgdriver->remove(card->gdev);
qeth_core_free_discipline(card);
......
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