linux-kernel - Re: e1000e NVM corruption issue status

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Date:	Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:13:17 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
From:	"Brandeburg, Jesse" <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>
To:	"Brandeburg, Jesse" <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>
cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	agospoda@...hat.com, "Ronciak, John" <john.ronciak@...el.com>,
	"Allan, Bruce W" <bruce.w.allan@...el.com>,
	"Graham, David" <david.graham@...el.com>, kkiel@...e.de,
	tglx@...utronix.de, chris.jones@...onical.com,
	arjan@...ux.jf.intel.com
Subject: Re: e1000e NVM corruption issue status

e1000e: dump eeprom to dmesg for ich8/9

From: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>

dumping the eeprom for now seems like a bit of a verbose
hack, but might be useful when we want to restore it.

if syslogd (or something like) isn't running it won't be kept
however.

Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>
---

 drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c |    5 +++++
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c b/drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c
index ad026d0..c5a99ed 100644
--- a/drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c
@@ -4600,6 +4600,11 @@ static int __devinit e1000_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
 
 	e1000_eeprom_checks(adapter);
 
+	/* debug code ... dump the first bytes of the eeprom for
+	 * ich parts that might get a corruption */
+	if (adapter->flags & FLAG_IS_ICH)
+		e1000e_dump_eeprom(adapter);
+
 	/* don't block initalization here due to bad MAC address */
 	memcpy(netdev->dev_addr, adapter->hw.mac.addr, netdev->addr_len);
 	memcpy(netdev->perm_addr, adapter->hw.mac.addr, netdev->addr_len);
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