netdev - Re: [PATCH net-2.6 2/3] be2net: fix a bug in UE detection logic

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Message-Id: <20100903.095353.232911100.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:53:53 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ajitk@...verengines.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-2.6 2/3] be2net: fix a bug in UE detection logic

From: Ajit Khaparde <ajitk@...verengines.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 21:53:30 +0530

> The ONLINE registers can return 0xFFFFFFFF on more than one
> occassion. On systems that care, reading these registers could
> lead to problems.
> 
> So the new code decides that the ASIC has encountered and error
> by reading the UE_STATUS_LOW/HIGH registers. AND them with
> the mask values and a non-zero result indicates an error.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajitk@...verengines.com>

Applied.
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