Re: [PATCH 3/3] e1000e: remove failed request for sw/fw/hw flag

[Jeff Garzik]

Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> > > When the driver fails to acquire the control flag used to serialize
> > > NVM and PHY accesses between the driver, firmware and hardware, remove the
> > > request for the flag otherwise the hardware might grant the flag when it
> > > becomes available but the driver will not release the flag.  This could
> > > cause the firmware to prevent the driver getting the flag for all future
> > > attempts.
> > applied
>
> BTW are you going to take the whole series, or just this fix?

Just this fix

	Jeff



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