From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] netxen: fix physical port mapping Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 03:44:30 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20090224.034430.250330119.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1235463419-25146-1-git-send-email-dhananjay@netxen.com> <1235463419-25146-2-git-send-email-dhananjay@netxen.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: dhananjay@netxen.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:41156 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753259AbZBXLot (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Feb 2009 06:44:49 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1235463419-25146-2-git-send-email-dhananjay@netxen.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Dhananjay Phadke Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:16:58 -0800 > The PCI function to physical port mapping is valid only for > old firmware. New firmware (4.0.0+) abstracts this. > So driver should never try to access phy using invalid > mapping. The behavior is unpredictable when PCI functions > 4-7 are enabled on the same NIC. > > Signed-off-by: Dhananjay Phadke Applied.