netdev - Re: [PATCH] e1000: fix concurrent accesses to PHY from watchdog and ethtool

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Date:	Fri, 19 Oct 2012 23:47:34 -0700
From:	Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
To:	Florian Fainelli <ffainelli@...ebox.fr>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Maxime Bizon <mbizon@...ebox.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e1000: fix concurrent accesses to PHY from watchdog and
 ethtool

On Fri, 2012-10-19 at 14:44 +0200, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> From: Maxime Bizon <mbizon@...ebox.fr>
> 
> The e1000 driver currently does not protect concurrent accesses to the
> PHY
> from both the ethtool callbacks, and from the e1000_watchdog function.
> This
> patchs adds a new spinlock which is used by e1000_{read,write}_phy_reg
> in
> order to serialize concurrent accesses to the PHY.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Bizon <mbizon@...ebox.fr>
> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <ffainelli@...ebox.fr>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_hw.c |   17 +++++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) 

It does not appear I have responded yet, so...

I have added this patch to my queue, thanks!

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