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be2net: Warn users of possible broken functionality on BE2 cards with…
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… very old FW versions with latest driver

On very old FW versions < 4.0, the mailbox command to set interrupts
on the card succeeds even though it is not supported and should have
failed, leading to a scenario where interrupts do not work.
Hence warn users to upgrade to a suitable FW version to avoid seeing
broken functionality.

Signed-off-by: Somnath Kotur <somnath.kotur@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Somnath Kotur authored and David S. Miller committed Oct 27, 2013
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9 changes: 9 additions & 0 deletions drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be.h
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Expand Up @@ -696,6 +696,15 @@ static inline int qnq_async_evt_rcvd(struct be_adapter *adapter)
return adapter->flags & BE_FLAGS_QNQ_ASYNC_EVT_RCVD;
}

static inline int fw_major_num(const char *fw_ver)
{
int fw_major = 0;

sscanf(fw_ver, "%d.", &fw_major);

return fw_major;
}

extern void be_cq_notify(struct be_adapter *adapter, u16 qid, bool arm,
u16 num_popped);
extern void be_link_status_update(struct be_adapter *adapter, u8 link_status);
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6 changes: 6 additions & 0 deletions drivers/net/ethernet/emulex/benet/be_main.c
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Expand Up @@ -3247,6 +3247,12 @@ static int be_setup(struct be_adapter *adapter)

be_cmd_get_fw_ver(adapter, adapter->fw_ver, adapter->fw_on_flash);

if (BE2_chip(adapter) && fw_major_num(adapter->fw_ver) < 4) {
dev_err(dev, "Firmware on card is old(%s), IRQs may not work.",
adapter->fw_ver);
dev_err(dev, "Please upgrade firmware to version >= 4.0\n");
}

if (adapter->vlans_added)
be_vid_config(adapter);

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