Eric W. Biederman wrote: >A couple stray bits of feedback. Downing the interface is generally >a user space requirement like unmounting filesystems. >/sbin/kexec and /sbin/reboot both perform this operation so I don't >see how this bug was hit. > > > Thanks for your feedback. We are still working on kexec tools for PPC64. In the mean time, I was using a temporary tool which does not do ifdown. I was in the impression that the kexec boot will be successful since the normal kexec code path (kernel/sys.c) contains device_shutdown/reboot notifier. It turns out I am wrong. Thanks Haren
