em device hangs on ifconfig alias ...

[Doug Ambrisko]

Francisco Reyes writes:
| Atanas writes:
| > I have some newer machines with 2 Broadcom chips on-board. I plan to 
| > give them a try at some point in the future, but I'm not sure how stable 
| > the bge driver
| 
| For us they have been a problem. Primarily because it causes all kinds of 
| freezing/crashes when having an IPMI board. I believe it has performed ok in 
| machines where we don't have an IPMI card.

Can you try:
	http://www.ambrisko.com/doug/bge_ipmi_3.patch 
and see if that helps.  I need one minor tweak to it before I can
commit it.

Doug A.