netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] sky2: EEPROM read/write bug fixes

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Message-ID: <20080828111323.GI7908@solarflare.com>
Date:	Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:13:25 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] sky2: EEPROM read/write bug fixes

Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Cleanup and harden the routines accessing the EEPROM.
>   1. Prevent spin forever waiting for the TWSI bus
>   2. Fix write eeprom to write full words rather than only 16 bits 
>     Luckly the vendor doesn't provide EEPROM in Linux format so it must never
>     have been used.
>   3. Don't allow partial eeprom writes, not needed, not safe.
[...]

You should be able to replace the VPD access code with calls through
pci_dev->vpd->ops - though you'd need to remove some declarations from
drivers/pci/pci.h to include/linux/pci.h.

Ben.

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