Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] netxen: Avoid firmware load in PCI probe

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:58:36 -0300

Em Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 05:23:25PM +0530, [email-masked] escreveu:
> Loading firmware during PCI probe can lead to incorrect initialization,
> rendering the card unusable until next reboot.  This was introduced a while
> ago as a workaround for firmware bug, a better workaround was submitted for
> this a while ago. So removing original hack that loads firmware during probe.
> 
> Signed-off by: Dhananjay Phadke <[email-masked]>

Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email-masked]>

I was having these problems and after applying this patch the NIC is
back working, thank you for fixing this!

- Arnaldo
 
> Index: netdev-2.6/drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c
> ===================================================================
> --- netdev-2.6.orig/drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c
> +++ netdev-2.6/drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c
> @@ -639,10 +639,6 @@ netxen_nic_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, c
>  			NETXEN_CRB_NORMALIZE(adapter,
>  				NETXEN_ROMUSB_GLB_PEGTUNE_DONE));
>  		/* Handshake with the card before we register the devices. */
> -		writel(0, NETXEN_CRB_NORMALIZE(adapter, CRB_CMDPEG_STATE));
> -		netxen_pinit_from_rom(adapter, 0);
> -		msleep(1);
> -		netxen_load_firmware(adapter);
>  		netxen_phantom_init(adapter, NETXEN_NIC_PEG_TUNE);
>  	}