netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] cnic: Add a signature to indicate valid doorbell offset.

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Message-Id: <20140101.220845.701366883207918240.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 01 Jan 2014 22:08:45 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	mchan@...adcom.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] cnic: Add a signature to indicate valid
 doorbell offset.

From: Michael Chan <mchan@...adcom.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2013 23:18:34 -0800

> From: Eddie Wai <eddie.wai@...adcom.com>
> 
> The buffer that is used to pass doorbell offset to the userspace UIO
> driver may contain nonzero value in older versions of bnx2x driver.
> Userspace cannot easily tell whether it contains a valid doorbell
> offset or not.  With the added signature, userspace will only use
> the doorbell offset if the signature is present.
> 
> Update version to 2.5.19.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eddie Wai <eddie.wai@...adcom.com>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@...adcom.com>

Applied, thanks.
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