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bnx2x: previous driver unload revised
authorYuval Mintz <yuvalmin@broadcom.com>
Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:47:07 +0000 (20:47 +0000)
committerJoe Jin <joe.jin@oracle.com>
Tue, 28 Aug 2012 07:23:24 +0000 (15:23 +0800)
commit17e91649bbccaad74e6856b888e09cfe85236c21
tree2ef9b6e55a45835e2ee2fe4ba86945d53254046f
parent875c5d3dbf34dfd02303d51cc5e3ee0bdd80f00b
bnx2x: previous driver unload revised

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.

(cherry picked from commit 452427b015b1b0cbbef7b6207908726837d39d57)
Signed-off-by: Yuval Mintz <yuvalmin@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Joe Jin <joe.jin@oracle.com>
drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x.h
drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.c
drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.h
drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x_hsi.h
drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x_link.c
drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x_link.h
drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x_main.c
drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x_reg.h