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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] e1000e: remove failed request for sw/fw/hw flag
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:29:49 -0400
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Cc: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>,
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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