[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH] net/mlx4: modify sw reset

[Eli Cohen]

On 4/25/07, Roland Dreier <rdreier at cisco.com> wrote:
>
> > > Also is it worth taking the semaphore in the mthca reset function?
> >
> > Why not? PRM says we should - the point of this is protecting against
> someone
> > accidentally touching flash while device is reset,
> > which will result is hangs, system errors or even data corruption.
>
> OK... that was just my subtle way of asking for a patch to do that.


I don't follow you: the code that uses the semaphore is already in the patch
I sent. Apart from the the change in the vendor id field, I think it can be
applied as is.

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