Commit e836e321 authored Sep 06, 2017 by Stefano Brivio Committed by Jeff Kirsher Oct 10, 2017

i40e: Fix comment about locking for __i40e_read_nvm_word()



Caller needs to acquire the lock. Called functions will not.

Fixes: 09f79fd4 ("i40e: avoid NVM acquire deadlock during NVM update")
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>

parent 529a86e0

drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_nvm.c

+1 −1

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		@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ static i40e_status i40e_read_nvm_word_aq(struct i40e_hw *hw, u16 offset,
		}

		/**
		* __i40e_read_nvm_word - Reads nvm word, assumes called does the locking
		* __i40e_read_nvm_word - Reads nvm word, assumes caller does the locking
		* @hw: pointer to the HW structure
		* @offset: offset of the Shadow RAM word to read (0x000000 - 0x001FFF)
		* @data: word read from the Shadow RAM