linux-kernel - [RFC PATCH 09/12] e1000e: dump eeprom to dmesg for ich8/9

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Date:	Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:20:03 -0700
From:	Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-netdev@...r.kernel.org, kkeil@...e.de, agospoda@...hat.com,
	arjan@...ux.intel.com, david.graham@...el.com,
	bruce.w.allan@...el.com, jkosina@...e.cz, john.ronciak@...el.com,
	tglx@...utronix.de, chris.jones@...onical.com,
	tim.gardner@...el.com, airlied@...il.com,
	Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>
Subject: [RFC PATCH 09/12] e1000e: dump eeprom to dmesg for ich8/9

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 48b0ded..57cead3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c
@@ -4598,6 +4598,11 @@ 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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