netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/2] netxen: avoid frequent firmware reset

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Message-Id: <20090702.131741.10488154.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:17:41 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dhananjay@...xen.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] netxen: avoid frequent firmware reset

From: Dhananjay Phadke <dhananjay@...xen.com>
Date: Wed,  1 Jul 2009 14:41:43 -0700

> Restrict firmware reset to following cases -
> 
> o chip rev is NX2031 (firmare doesn't support heartbit).
> o firmware is dead.
> o previous attempt to init firmware had failed.
> o we have got newer file firmware.
> 
> This speeds up module load tremendously (by upto 8 sec),
> also avoids downtime for NCSI (management) pass-thru
> traffic.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dhananjay Phadke <dhananjay@...xen.com>

Applied.
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