netdev - Re: [PATCH] be2net: use CSR-BAR SEMAPHORE reg for BE2/BE3

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Date:	Wed, 06 Mar 2013 14:57:37 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	sathya.perla@...lex.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] be2net: use CSR-BAR SEMAPHORE reg for BE2/BE3

From: Sathya Perla <sathya.perla@...lex.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 13:53:20 +0530

> The SLIPORT_SEMAPHORE register shadowed in the
> config-space may not reflect the correct POST stage after
> an EEH reset in BE2/3; it may return FW_READY state even though
> FW is not ready. This causes the driver to prematurely
> poll the FW mailbox and fail.
> 
> For BE2/3 use the CSR-BAR/0xac instead.
> 
> Reported-by: Gavin Shan <shangw@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sathya Perla <sathya.perla@...lex.com>

Applied, thanks.
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