netdev - Re: [net PATCH] bnx2x: previous driver unload revised

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Message-Id: <20120327.224143.558320780655911930.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 27 Mar 2012 22:41:43 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	yuvalmin@...adcom.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, dmitry@...adcom.com, eilong@...adcom.com
Subject: Re: [net PATCH] bnx2x: previous driver unload revised

From: "Yuval Mintz" <yuvalmin@...adcom.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 08:47:07 +0200

> The flow in which the bnx2x driver starts after a previous driver 
> has been terminated in an 'unclean' manner has several bugs and
> FW risks, which makes it possible for the driver to fail after 
> boot-from-SAN or kdump.
> This patch contains a revised flow which performs a safer
> initialization, solving the possible crash scenarios.
> Notice this patch contains lines with over 80 characters, as it
> keeps print-strings in a single line.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yuval Mintz <yuvalmin@...adcom.com>
> Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@...adcom.com>

Applied.
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