netdev - Re: [NET-NEXT PATCH 07/14] e1000e: ESB2 config after link up

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Message-Id: <20081121.165358.262920660.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:53:58 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, jeff@...zik.org, bruce.w.allan@...el.com
Subject: Re: [NET-NEXT PATCH 07/14] e1000e: ESB2 config after link up

From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:00:52 -0800

> From: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@...el.com>
> 
> On ESB2, the MAC-to-PHY (Kumeran) interface must be configured after link
> is up before any traffic is sent; a new PHY operations function pointer is
> provided for this.  To facilitate read/write of the Kumeran registers
> without blocking PHY register writes, the driver/firmware synchronization
> method which previously used a hardware semaphore for both PHY and Kumeran
> register accesses is now split.  New Kumeran register read/write functions
> utilize this new synchronization method.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>

Applied.
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