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Yaniv Rosner
a429ec239c bnx2x: Fix Duplex setting for 54618se
BCM54618SE is used to advertise half-duplex even if HD was not requested by the
user. This change makes the legacy speed/duplex advertisement for this PHY
exactly according to the requested speed and duplex.

Signed-off-by: Yaniv Rosner <yanivr@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Ariel Elior <ariele@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-01-01 22:09:47 -05:00
Yaniv Rosner
e803d33a32 bnx2x: Fix passive DAC cable detection
Fix Passive DAC detection for specific cables, such that even in case
SFP_CABLE_TECHNOLOGY option is not set in the EEPROM (offset 8), treat it as a
passive DAC cable, since some cables don't have this indication.

Signed-off-by: Yaniv Rosner <yanivr@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Ariel Elior <ariele@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-01-01 22:09:47 -05:00
Yaniv Rosner
b899e698fc bnx2x: Fix 578xx-KR 1G link
Fix a problem where 578xx-KR is unable to get link when connected to 1G link
partner. Two fixes were required:
One was to force CL37 sync_status low to prevent Warpcore from getting stuck in
CL73 parallel detect loop while link partner is sending.
Second fix was to enable auto-detect mode, thus allowing the Warpcore to select
the higher speed protocol between 10G-KR (over CL73), or go down to 1G over CL73
when there's indication for it.

Signed-off-by: Yaniv Rosner <yanivr@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Ariel Elior <ariele@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-01-01 22:09:47 -05:00
Eddie Wai
d15e2a92c4 cnic: Add a signature to indicate valid doorbell offset.
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@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-01-01 22:08:08 -05:00
Michael Chan
487d9edcd2 bnx2: Update version to 2.2.5.
Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-01-01 22:03:38 -05:00
Michael Chan
4016baddac bnx2: Report MDI/MDIX status to ethtool.
Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-01-01 22:03:38 -05:00
Michael Chan
41033b65b9 bnx2: Enable auto-mdix when autoneg is disabled.
Auto-mdix currently only works if autoneg is enabled.  This patch enables
auto-mdix all the time by setting a bit in a PHY register.  Define
meaningful constants for this PHY registers.

Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-01-01 22:03:38 -05:00
Michael Chan
d17e53bdcd bnx2: Advertise nothing when speed is forced
The current code does not reset the advertisement register when the speed
is forced, leaving the default advertisement value of 10 Mbps.  This does
not work with some link partners when the next patch enables auto-mdix.

Set advertisement register to 0 if the speed is forced.

Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-01-01 22:03:37 -05:00
Greg Rose
90327e7dff i40evf: A0 silicon specific
A0 stepping silicon specific code

Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com>
Tested-by: Sibai Li <sibai.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2013-12-31 16:39:42 -08:00
Greg Rose
105bf2fe6b i40evf: add driver to kernel build system
Modify the existing Kconfig, Makefile, and MAINTAINERS to add the driver
to the kernel. Add a Makefile and a documentation

Signed-off-by: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com>
Tested-by: Sibai Li <sibai.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2013-12-31 16:27:49 -08:00
Greg Rose
d358aa9a7a i40evf: init code and hardware support
This patch implements the hardware specific init and management.

Signed-off-by: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com>
Tested-by: Sibai Li <sibai.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2013-12-31 16:18:25 -08:00
Greg Rose
5321a21c1c i40evf: driver core headers
This patch contains the main driver header files, containing structures
and data types specific to the linux driver.

i40e_osdep.h contains some code that helps us adapt our OS agnostic code
to Linux.

Signed-off-by: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com>
Tested-by: Sibai Li <sibai.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2013-12-31 16:09:05 -08:00
Greg Rose
62683ab51e i40evf: virtual channel interface
This PCI-E SR-IOV virtual function (VF) driver is dependant upon the
physical function (PF) driver (i40e) for nearly all of its hardware
configuration. Requests from the VF driver are passed to the PF using
the hardware's Admin Queue.

This patch contains the functionality for communicating with the PF
driver. Because of the delay inherent in this communications channel,
most of the replies from the PF driver are handled asynchronously. The
exceptions are the "send API version" and "get VF config" messages,
which busy-wait because they are done so early during init that
interrupts are not yet configured.

Signed-off-by: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com>
Tested-by: Sibai Li <sibai.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2013-12-31 16:01:28 -08:00
Greg Rose
fbb7ddfef2 i40evf: core ethtool functionality
This patch contains the ethtool interface and related functionality.
Since the VF driver is mostly unaware of link, much of that
functionality is unused. The driver implements ethtool hooks for
statistics, driver info, and some basic non-link-related driver
settings.

Signed-off-by: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com>
Tested-by: Sibai Li <sibai.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2013-12-31 15:52:57 -08:00
Greg Rose
7f12ad741a i40evf: transmit and receive functionality
This file contains the transmit, receive, and NAPI functionality.

Some of the functions in this module are extracted from the i40e driver
but functions that are not appropriate for virtual function devices have
been removed.

Signed-off-by: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com>
Tested-by: Sibai Li <sibai.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2013-12-31 15:45:23 -08:00
Greg Rose
5eae00c57f i40evf: main driver core
This is the driver for the Intel(R) XL710 X710 Virtual Function.

This patch contains the main driver entry points, but does not include
transmit and receive or ethtool functionality, which are presented as
separate patches in this series.

Signed-off-by: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com>
Tested-by: Sibai Li <sibai.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2013-12-31 15:37:03 -08:00
dingtianhong
d9f394fe56 net: ti: slight optimization of addr compare
Use possibly more efficient ether_addr_equal
to instead of memcmp.

Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-31 16:48:33 -05:00
dingtianhong
00fa4ce9fd net: sun: optimization of addr compare
Use possibly more efficient ether_addr_equal
to instead of memcmp.

Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-31 16:48:32 -05:00
dingtianhong
9116d7b06d net: seeq: slight optimization of addr compare
Use possibly more efficient ether_addr_equal
to instead of memcmp.

Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-31 16:48:32 -05:00
dingtianhong
c4bde29cb0 net: renesas: slight optimization of addr compare
Use possibly more efficient ether_addr_equal
to instead of memcmp.

Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-31 16:48:32 -05:00
dingtianhong
6878f79a8b net: qlcnic: slight optimization of addr compare
Use the possibly more efficient ether_addr_equal or
ether_addr_equal_unaligned to instead of memcmp.

Cc: Himanshu Madhani <himanshu.madhani@qlogic.com>
Cc: Rajesh Borundia <rajesh.borundia@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-31 16:48:32 -05:00
dingtianhong
202af853cc net: netxen: slight optimization of addr compare
Use possibly more efficient ether_addr_equal
to instead of memcmp.

Cc: Manish Chopra <manish.chopra@qlogic.com>
Cc: Sony Chacko <sony.chacko@qlogic.com>
Cc: Rajesh Borundia <rajesh.borundia@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-31 16:48:32 -05:00
dingtianhong
3a8e87ec23 net: packetengines: slight optimization of addr
Use possibly more efficient ether_addr_equal
to instead of memcmp.

Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-31 16:48:32 -05:00
dingtianhong
f75d191b36 net: vxge: slight optimization of addr compare
Use possibly more efficient ether_addr_equal
to instead of memcmp.

Cc: Jon Mason <jdmason@kudzu.us>
Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-31 16:48:31 -05:00
dingtianhong
7ced54402e net: ksz884x: slight optimization of addr compare
Use possibly more efficient ether_addr_equal
to instead of memcmp.

Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-31 16:48:31 -05:00
dingtianhong
c0623e587d net: mlx4: slight optimization of addr compare
Use possibly more efficient ether_addr_equal
to instead of memcmp.

Cc: Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com>
Acked-By: Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-31 16:48:31 -05:00
dingtianhong
4012dda3c1 net: ixgbe: slight optimization of addr compare
Use possibly more efficient ether_addr_equal
to instead of memcmp.

Cc: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Cc: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Cc: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-31 16:48:31 -05:00
dingtianhong
887fa9d8f4 net: igbvf: slight optimization of addr compare
Use possibly more efficient ether_addr_equal
to instead of memcmp.

Cc: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Cc: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Cc: Carolyn Wyborny <carolyn.wyborny@intel.com>
Cc: Don Skidmore <donald.c.skidmore@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-31 16:48:31 -05:00
dingtianhong
61d23e9f3d net: benet: slight optimization of addr compare
Use possibly more efficient ether_addr_equal
to instead of memcmp.

Cc: Sathya Perla <sathya.perla@emulex.com>
Cc: Subbu Seetharaman <subbu.seetharaman@emulex.com>
Cc: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-31 16:48:31 -05:00
dingtianhong
9130ac61a5 net: enic: slight optimization of addr compare
Use possibly more efficient ether_addr_equal
to instead of memcmp.

Cc: Christian Benvenuti <benve@cisco.com>
Cc: Sujith Sankar <ssujith@cisco.com>
Cc: Govindarajulu Varadarajan <govindarajulu90@gmail.com>
Cc: Neel Patel <neepatel@cisco.com>
Cc: Nishank Trivedi <nistrive@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Govindarajulu Varadarajan <govindarajulu90@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-31 16:48:31 -05:00
dingtianhong
4c1120b623 net: cxgb3: slight optimization of addr compare
Use possibly more efficient ether_addr_equal
to instead of memcmp.

Cc: Santosh Raspatur <santosh@chelsio.com>
Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-31 16:48:30 -05:00
dingtianhong
8fd90de800 net: bnx2x: slight optimization of addr compare
Use the possibly more efficient ether_addr_equal or
ether_addr_equal_unaligned to instead of memcmp.

Cc: Ariel Elior <ariele@broadcom.com>
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com>
Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-31 16:48:30 -05:00
dingtianhong
c466a9b2b3 net: 3com: slight optimization of addr compare
Use possibly more efficient ether_addr_equal
to instead of memcmp.

Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-31 16:48:30 -05:00
Or Gerlitz
837052d0cc net/mlx4_en: Add netdev support for TCP/IP offloads of vxlan tunneling
When the device tunneling offloads mode is vxlan do the following

 - call SET_PORT with the relevant setting

 - add DMFS steering vxlan rule for the device self and multicast mac addresses
   of the form: {<ETH, outer-mac> <VXLAN, ANY vnid> <ETH, ANY mac>} --> RSS QP

 - set relevant QPC fields in RSS context and RX ring QPs

 - in TX flow, set WQE fields to generate HW checksum, and handle gso skbs
   which are marked for encapsulation such that the HW will segment them properly.

 - in RX flow, read HW offloaded checksum for encapsulated packets from the CQE

 - advertize hw_enc_features and NETIF_F_GSO_UDP_TUNNEL to the networking stack

Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-31 14:31:43 -05:00
Or Gerlitz
7ffdf726cf net/mlx4_core: Add basic support for TCP/IP offloads under tunneling
Add the low-level device commands and definitions used for TCP/IP HW offloads
of tunneled/vxlan traffic which are supported by the ConnectX3-pro NIC.

This is done through the following elements:

 - read tunneling device caps in QUERY_DEV_CAP
 - add helper function to do SET_PORT for tunneling
 - add DMFS VXLAN steering rule definitions
 - add CQE and WQE checksum offload field definitions

Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-31 14:31:43 -05:00
Vince Bridgers
7cd0139923 stmmac: Fix incorrect spinlock release and PTP cap detection.
This patch corrects a problem in stmmac_ptp.c, functions
stmmac_adjust_time and stmmac_adjust_freq where the incorrect spinlocks
were released. This patch also addresses a problem in stmmac_main,
function stmmac_init_ptp where the capability detection for
advanced timestamping was masked by message masking.

This patch was touch tested using linuxptp, and runs without the previously
observed instabilities. More extensive testing is ongoing.

Vince

Signed-off-by: Vince Bridgers <vbridgers2013@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-29 22:37:00 -05:00
Fabio Estevam
7a399e3a2e fec: Do not assume that PHY reset is active low
We should not assume that the PHY reset is always active low.

Retrieve this information from the device tree instead, so that the PHY reset
can work on both cases.

Reported-by: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-29 22:27:00 -05:00
Geert Uytterhoeven
4ffa8fcd17 net/7990: Make lance_private.name const
This allows to drop a few casts.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-29 00:46:38 -05:00
Geert Uytterhoeven
a8ab77a83a net/7990: Fix whitespace errors
Most of them reported by checkpatch.pl

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-29 00:46:38 -05:00
Hauke Mehrtens
69c588529d bgmac: use phy_mii_ioctl in ioctl handler
This works pretty much the same way, so avoid duplicating the code.

Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-27 13:28:02 -05:00
Rafał Miłecki
5322dbf00a bgmac: drop duplicated PHY defines
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-27 13:28:02 -05:00
David Gibson
4710b2ba87 netxen: Correct off-by-one errors in bounds checks
netxen_process_lro() contains two bounds checks.  One for the ring number
against the number of rings, and one for the Rx buffer ID against the
array of receive buffers.

Both of these have off-by-one errors, using > instead of >=. The correct
versions are used in netxen_process_rcv(), they're just wrong in
netxen_process_lro().

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-27 13:08:25 -05:00
Eric Dumazet
37ec274e97 arc_emac: fix potential use after free
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>

skb_tx_timestamp(skb) should be called _before_ TX completion
has a chance to trigger, otherwise it is too late and we access
freed memory.

Fixes: e4f2379db6 ("ethernet/arc/arc_emac - Add new driver")
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Alexey Brodkin <Alexey.Brodkin@synopsys.com>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-27 13:00:31 -05:00
Nithin Sujir
375679104a tg3: Expand 4g_overflow_test workaround to skb fragments of any size.
The current driver assumes that an skb fragment can only be upto jumbo
size. Presumably this was a fast-path optimization. This assumption is
no longer true as fragments can be upto 32k.

v2: Remove unnecessary parantheses per Eric Dumazet.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nithin Nayak Sujir <nsujir@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-27 12:51:44 -05:00
Ben Hutchings
69317a5351 tile_net: Always enable PTP clock support on TILE-Gx
All other net drivers with PTP support enable it unconditionally.
Make tile_net consistent with this.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-27 12:44:55 -05:00
David S. Miller
fcf93a0a2f bnx2x: Fix build with SRIOV disabled.
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_main.c: In function 'bnx2x_drv_info_ether_stat':
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_main.c:3302:46: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
make[6]: *** [drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_main.o] Error 1

Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-26 18:33:10 -05:00
Yuval Mintz
858f4deb36 bnx2x: add VF Multicast filters support
This patch adds the necessary support for configuring (and removing) multicast
filters to VFs.

Signed-off-by: Yuval Mintz <yuvalmin@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Ariel Elior <ariele@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-26 13:38:21 -05:00
Yuval Mintz
0c757dee6a bnx2x: Add num of VFs to Management statistics
Signed-off-by: Yuval Mintz <yuvalmin@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Ariel Elior <ariele@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-26 13:38:21 -05:00
Yuval Mintz
31b3523c22 bnx2x: no error when RSS configuration fails
It's possible for VMs with older versions of bnx2x to run over a hypervisor
with latest driver. If a VF in such a VM does not support RSS configuration,
the PF driver in the hypervisor will print an error message to system logs.

This changes the error message into a debug message, as this is very likely
a false alarm for an older VF (i.e., VF manages to work properly; PF simply
cannot configure the additional queues for it).

Signed-off-by: Yuval Mintz <yuvalmin@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Ariel Elior <ariele@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-26 13:38:21 -05:00
Yuval Mintz
68bf5a108e bnx2x: add Big-Endian ethtool comment
There's a known issue that using `ethtool -e' flips the endianity of the
written data, i.e., using `ethtool -E' to dump eeprom image and than using
`ethtool -e' to re-write that same image will result in an image where
the data has the opposite endianity.
Sadly, this cannot be fixed as there are already various tools deployed
based on the endianity of the eeprom read/write.
Instead, a comment is added to the code to help explain why this is un-fixable.

Signed-off-by: Yuval Mintz <yuvalmin@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Ariel Elior <ariele@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-26 13:38:21 -05:00