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author | Dhananjay Phadke <dhananjay@netxen.com> | 2009-07-01 11:41:43 +0000 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2009-07-02 13:16:51 -0700 |
commit | 67c38fc61af930fa03b042932b6b14fbf8126222 (patch) | |
tree | 2577cebc515dba4a9a37a77368bfe4051d975c18 /Documentation/memory-barriers.txt | |
parent | 98e31bb00983a5b6d638a31e4ff77e5ca1ccf93e (diff) |
netxen: avoid frequent firmware reset
Restrict firmware reset to following cases -
o chip rev is NX2031 (firmare doesn't support heartbit).
o firmware is dead.
o previous attempt to init firmware had failed.
o we have got newer file firmware.
This speeds up module load tremendously (by upto 8 sec),
also avoids downtime for NCSI (management) pass-thru
traffic.
Signed-off-by: Dhananjay Phadke <dhananjay@netxen.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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