From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: yuvalmin@broadcom.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, ariele@broadcom.com,
yaniv.rosner@broadcom.com, eilong@broadcom.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/1] bnx2x: recognize fan failure
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2012 13:47:42 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121203.134742.1564114308967610212.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1354528609-17486-1-git-send-email-yuvalmin@broadcom.com>
From: "Yuval Mintz" <yuvalmin@broadcom.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 11:56:49 +0200
> From: Yaniv Rosner <yaniv.rosner@broadcom.com>
>
> If fan failure is detected, MCP prevents PCI I/O registers from being
> mapped to the bar, causing a fatal error as driver is unaware.
>
> This patch recognizes such an event occurred and gracefully terminates
> the probe process.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yaniv Rosner <yaniv.rosner@broadcom.com>
> Signed-off-by: Yuval Mintz <yuvalmin@broadcom.com>
> Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com>
> ---
> Hi Dave,
>
> This patch prevents a fatal error on newer bnx2x boards.
>
> Please consider applying it to 'net'.
Too late, I've applied it to net-next. I'm not asking Linus to hold back
an already delayed released for such a rarely triggering issue such as this
one.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-03 18:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-03 9:56 [PATCH net 1/1] bnx2x: recognize fan failure Yuval Mintz
2012-12-03 18:47 ` David Miller [this message]
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