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be2net: Bug fix to avoid disabling bottom half during firmware upgrade.

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Certain firmware commands/operations to upgrade firmware could take several
seconds to complete. The code presently disables bottom half during these
operations which could lead to unpredictable behaviour in certain cases. This
patch now does all firmware upgrade operations asynchronously using a
completion variable.

Signed-off-by: Sarveshwar Bandi <sarveshwarb@serverengines.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Sarveshwar Bandi
2010-05-25 16:16:32 -07:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 563b046710
commit dd131e76e5
3 changed files with 20 additions and 2 deletions
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drivers/net/benet/be_main.c
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@@ -2319,6 +2319,7 @@ static int be_ctrl_init(struct be_adapter *adapter)
spin_lock_init(&adapter->mcc_lock);
spin_lock_init(&adapter->mcc_cq_lock);
init_completion(&adapter->flash_compl);
pci_save_state(adapter->pdev);
return 0;