Re: [PATCH 1/8] pm80xx: configure PHY settings based on subsystem vendor ID

[Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>]

On 10/30/2015 03:53 PM, Benjamin Rood wrote:
> Previuosly, all PMC Sierra 80xx controllers are assumed to be a
> motherboard controller, except if the subsystem vendor ID was equal to
> PCI_VENDOR_ID_ADAPTEC.  The driver then attempts to load PHY settings
> from NVRAM.  While this may be correct behavior for most controllers, it
> does not work with Adaptec and ATTO controllers since they do not store
> PHY settings in NVRAM and choose to use either custom PHY settings or chip
> defaults.  Loading random values from NVRAM may cause the controllers to
> malfunction in this edge case.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Rood <brood@attotech.com>
> ---
>  drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_init.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++------
>  1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>

Cheers,

Hannes
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