Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:51:21 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/3] e1000e: remove failed request for sw/fw/hw flag |
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Jeff Kirsher wrote: > From: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com> > > When the driver fails to acquire the control flag used to serialize > NVM and PHY accesses between the driver, firmware and hardware, remove the > request for the flag otherwise the hardware might grant the flag when it > becomes available but the driver will not release the flag. This could > cause the firmware to prevent the driver getting the flag for all future > attempts. > > Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com> > Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> > --- > > drivers/net/e1000e/ich8lan.c | 2 ++ > 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
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