From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Philip Prindeville <philipp_subx@redfish-solutions.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
bhutchings@solarflare.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-atm-general@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Linux-ATM-General] [PATCH v2 1/1] solos-pci: Fix regression introduced by newest firmware
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:09:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1304118588.32168.71.camel@macbook.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D86FD63.1090405@redfish-solutions.com>
On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 00:25 -0700, Philip Prindeville wrote:
> On 3/20/11 11:04 PM, David Miller wrote:
> > From: Philip Prindeville<philipp_subx@redfish-solutions.com>
> > Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 22:56:43 -0700
> >
> >> It's not clear that dropping all VCs abruptly when carrier flapped was
> >> ever the right thing to do.
> > So you've tested your change with the older firmware present?
>
> I haven't, no: back-revving firmware has been known to brick cards.
>
> I'm waiting to hear back from Guy and Nathan, they have old cards on hand that they can test.
I have JTAG on one of mine and can test, but there's no real need in
this case. If you want to simulate the absence of the 'state changed'
notification, just *ignore* it when it does arrive.
--
David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@intel.com Intel Corporation
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-29 23:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-21 1:52 [PATCH v2 1/1] solos-pci: Fix regression introduced by newest firmware Philip Prindeville
2011-03-21 3:01 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-03-21 4:57 ` David Miller
2011-03-21 5:56 ` Philip Prindeville
2011-03-21 6:04 ` David Miller
2011-03-21 7:25 ` Philip Prindeville
2011-04-29 23:09 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
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