netdev - Re: [PATCH] netxen: avoid using reset_devices as it may become obsolete

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Message-Id: <20101128.104824.189695368.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sun, 28 Nov 2010 10:48:24 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	amit.salecha@...gic.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, ameen.rahman@...gic.com,
	anirban.chakraborty@...gic.com, rajesh.borundia@...gic.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netxen: avoid using reset_devices as it may become
 obsolete

From: Amit Kumar Salecha <amit.salecha@...gic.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 05:08:27 -0800

> From: Rajesh Borundia <rajesh.borundia@...gic.com>
> 
> In kdump environment do not depend on reset_devices
> parameter to reset the device as the parameter may become obsolete.
> Instead use an adapter specific mechanism to determine if the device
> needs a reset.
> 
> Driver maintains a count of number of pci functions probed
> and decrements the count when remove handler of that pci function
> is called. If the first probe, probe of function 0,
> detects the count as non zero then reset the device.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rajesh Borundia <rajesh.borundia@...gic.com>
> Signed-off-by: Amit Kumar Salecha <amit.salecha@...gic.com>

Applied.
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