netdev - Re: [PATCH linux-firmware] linux-firmware: bnx2: Update mips firmware to fix iSCSI problems

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Date:	Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:55:26 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Michael Chan <mchan@...adcom.com>
Cc:	dwmw2@...radead.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH linux-firmware] linux-firmware: bnx2: Update mips
 firmware to fix iSCSI problems

Le dimanche 18 décembre 2011 à 20:13 -0800, Michael Chan a écrit :
> New firmware fixes iSCSI problems with some LeftHand targets that don't
> set TTT=0xffffffff for Data-In according to spec.  Firmware generates
> exception warnings for this condition and becomes very slow.  This is
> fixed by suppressing these warnings when using default error mask.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@...adcom.com>
> ---
>  WHENCE                      |    2 ++
>  bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-6.2.3.fw  |  Bin 0 -> 92824 bytes
>  bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b.fw |  Bin 0 -> 103904 bytes
>  3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-6.2.3.fw
>  create mode 100644 bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b.fw

IMHO, this should be applied _before_ the drivers/net patch.



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