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: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:53:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20100903.095353.232911100.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20100903162321.GA22812@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]:54492 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755815Ab0ICQxg (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Sep 2010 12:53:36 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20100903162321.GA22812@serverengines.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Ajit Khaparde Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 21:53:30 +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.