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| author |   Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com> | 2011-09-08 03:50:54 +0000 |
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| committer |   Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> | 2011-10-05 02:54:05 -0700 |
| commit | 2466dd9ca11ea9e4400eb8477a9df2a0fe539d47 (patch) | |
| tree | c4e86022592354ce06877d5ffebec5433d2a44bf /drivers/net/ethernet | |
| parent | ixgbe: remove return code for functions that always return 0 (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-2466dd9ca11ea9e4400eb8477a9df2a0fe539d47.tar.xz linux-dev-2466dd9ca11ea9e4400eb8477a9df2a0fe539d47.zip | |
ixgbe: fix driver version initialization in firmware
This patch fixes an issue with storing the driver version for the
firmware. If the os does not support the particular firmware
management tools, the firmware requires a driver version to be written
as 0xFFFFFFFF rather than the actual driver version.
Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Tested-by: Stephen Ko <stephen.s.ko@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/ethernet')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c index ed922726daab..1a3b91f09c08 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c @@ -7587,10 +7587,12 @@ static int __devinit ixgbe_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, ixgbe_vf_configuration(pdev, (i | 0x10000000)); } - /* Inform firmware of driver version */ + /* firmware requires driver version to be 0xFFFFFFFF + * since os does not support feature + */ if (hw->mac.ops.set_fw_drv_ver) - hw->mac.ops.set_fw_drv_ver(hw, MAJ, MIN, BUILD, - FW_CEM_UNUSED_VER); + hw->mac.ops.set_fw_drv_ver(hw, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF, + 0xFF); /* add san mac addr to netdev */ ixgbe_add_sanmac_netdev(netdev); |