From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jesse.brandeburg@intel.com,
john.ronciak@intel.com, Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] e1000e: remove failed request for sw/fw/hw flag
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:29:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48DAE98D.3070208@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0809250257070.27884@twin.jikos.cz>
Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
>>> When the driver fails to acquire the control flag used to serialize
>>> NVM and PHY accesses between the driver, firmware and hardware, remove the
>>> request for the flag otherwise the hardware might grant the flag when it
>>> becomes available but the driver will not release the flag. This could
>>> cause the firmware to prevent the driver getting the flag for all future
>>> attempts.
>> applied
>
> BTW are you going to take the whole series, or just this fix?
Just this fix
Jeff
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-25 1:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-23 22:46 [PATCH 3/3] e1000e: remove failed request for sw/fw/hw flag Jeff Kirsher
2008-09-25 0:51 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-09-25 1:00 ` Jiri Kosina
2008-09-25 1:29 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
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