netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/6] sfc: Correct address of gPXE boot configuration in EEPROM

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Message-ID: <4912824F.6030604@pobox.com>
Date:	Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:36:15 -0500
From:	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>
To:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-net-drivers@...arflare.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] sfc: Correct address of gPXE boot configuration in
 EEPROM

Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Due to a hardware bug, the originally assigned range cannot reliably
> be used for boot configuration and must not be modifiable through
> ethtool.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/sfc/ethtool.c |    4 ++--
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/sfc/ethtool.c b/drivers/net/sfc/ethtool.c
> index fa98af5..cd0d087 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/sfc/ethtool.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/sfc/ethtool.c
> @@ -174,8 +174,8 @@ static struct efx_ethtool_stat efx_ethtool_stats[] = {
>  
>  /* EEPROM range with gPXE configuration */
>  #define EFX_ETHTOOL_EEPROM_MAGIC 0xEFAB
> -#define EFX_ETHTOOL_EEPROM_MIN 0x100U
> -#define EFX_ETHTOOL_EEPROM_MAX 0x400U
> +#define EFX_ETHTOOL_EEPROM_MIN 0x800U
> +#define EFX_ETHTOOL_EEPROM_MAX 0x1800U

this seems like something for 2.6.28-rc not 2.6.29, so why wait for 2.6.29?


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