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From: Philip Prindeville <philipp_subx@redfish-solutions•com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
Cc: bhutchings@solarflare•com, netdev@vger•kernel.org,
	linux-atm-general@lists•sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] solos-pci: Fix regression introduced by newest firmware
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 22:56:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D86E89B.1060905@redfish-solutions.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110320.215704.193716335.davem@davemloft.net>

On 3/20/11 9:57 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Ben Hutchings<bhutchings@solarflare•com>
> Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 03:01:36 +0000
>
>> On Sun, 2011-03-20 at 18:52 -0700, Philip Prindeville wrote:
>>> The newest FPGA firmware on the Solos processors correctly signals
>>> carrier transitions, bitrate, etc.
>>>
>>> The driver previously ignored these messages, and the physical state
>>> was always ATM_PHY_SIG_UNKNOWN.
>>>
>>> Now that the board reports its state, we expose a bug whereby the
>>> transition from UNKNOWN to LOST causes us to release all VC's.
>>>
>>> We don't delete any VC's, but instead just send an indication of
>>> carrier change.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Philip A Prindeville<philipp@redfish-solutions•com>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> --- a/drivers/atm/solos-pci.c	2011-03-20 15:27:40.000000000 -0600
>>> +++ b/drivers/atm/solos-pci.c	2011-03-20 16:32:11.000000000 -0600
>>> @@ -382,8 +382,10 @@ static int process_status(struct solos_c
>>>
>>>    	/* Anything but 'Showtime' is down */
>>>    	if (strcmp(state_str, "Showtime")) {
>>>    		atm_dev_signal_change(card->atmdev[port], ATM_PHY_SIG_LOST);
>>> +#if 0
>>>    		atm_dev_release_vccs(card->atmdev[port]);
>>> +#endif
>> Either remove it or don't.  #if 0 is for people without version control.
> Also, this would seem to break those using the older firmware.

It's not clear that dropping all VCs abruptly when carrier flapped was ever the right thing to do.

-Philip


  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-21  5:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-21  1:52 [PATCH v2 1/1] solos-pci: Fix regression introduced by newest firmware Philip Prindeville
2011-03-21  3:01 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-03-21  4:57   ` David Miller
2011-03-21  5:56     ` Philip Prindeville [this message]
2011-03-21  6:04       ` David Miller
2011-03-21  7:25         ` Philip Prindeville
2011-04-29 23:09           ` [Linux-ATM-General] " David Woodhouse

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