From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Chan Subject: [PATCH net-next 1/2] bnxt_en: Zero pad firmware messages to 128 bytes. Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 19:56:57 -0500 Message-ID: <1452214618-15519-2-git-send-email-mchan@broadcom.com> References: <1452214618-15519-1-git-send-email-mchan@broadcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: To: Return-path: Received: from mail-gw3-out.broadcom.com ([216.31.210.64]:28237 "EHLO mail-gw3-out.broadcom.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753498AbcAHA5A (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jan 2016 19:57:00 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1452214618-15519-1-git-send-email-mchan@broadcom.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: For future compatibility, zero pad all messages that the driver sends to the firmware to 128 bytes. If these messages are extended in the future with new byte enables, zero padding these messages now will guarantee future compatibility. Signed-off-by: Michael Chan --- drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c index f956949..287bfb7 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c @@ -2614,6 +2614,9 @@ int _hwrm_send_message(struct bnxt *bp, void *msg, u32 msg_len, int timeout) /* Write request msg to hwrm channel */ __iowrite32_copy(bp->bar0, data, msg_len / 4); + for (i = msg_len; i < HWRM_MAX_REQ_LEN; i += 4) + writel(0, bp->bar0 + i); + /* currently supports only one outstanding message */ if (intr_process) bp->hwrm_intr_seq_id = le32_to_cpu(req->target_id_seq_id) & -- 1.8.3.1