From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: yuvalmin@broadcom.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, dmitry@broadcom.com, eilong@broadcom.com
Subject: Re: [net PATCH] bnx2x: previous driver unload revised
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 22:41:43 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120327.224143.558320780655911930.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1332830827-18253-1-git-send-email-yuvalmin@broadcom.com>
From: "Yuval Mintz" <yuvalmin@broadcom.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 08:47:07 +0200
> The flow in which the bnx2x driver starts after a previous driver
> has been terminated in an 'unclean' manner has several bugs and
> FW risks, which makes it possible for the driver to fail after
> boot-from-SAN or kdump.
> This patch contains a revised flow which performs a safer
> initialization, solving the possible crash scenarios.
> Notice this patch contains lines with over 80 characters, as it
> keeps print-strings in a single line.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yuval Mintz <yuvalmin@broadcom.com>
> Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com>
Applied.
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2012-03-27 6:47 [net PATCH] bnx2x: previous driver unload revised Yuval Mintz
2012-03-28 2:41 ` David Miller [this message]
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