From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH net-2.6 2/3] be2net: fix a bug in UE detection logic Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:23:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20100825.142311.115915728.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20100825102720.GA14925@serverengines.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: ajitk@serverengines.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:60232 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754420Ab0HYVWz (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:22:55 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20100825102720.GA14925@serverengines.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Ajit Khaparde Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:57:31 +0530 > The ONLINE registers can return 0xFFFFFFFF on more than one > occassion. On systems that care, reading these registers could > lead to problems. > > So the new code decides that the ASIC has encountered and error > by reading the UE_STATUS_LOW/HIGH registers. AND them with > the mask values and a non-zero result indicates an error. > > Signed-off-by: Ajit Khaparde Applied.