On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, Wyborny, Carolyn wrote:

> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jesper Juhl [mailto:[email protected]] 
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 12:06 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; Wyborny, 
> > Carolyn; Pieper, Jeffrey E; Kirsher, Jeffrey T; Rick Jones; Ronciak, John; 
> > Brandeburg, Jesse; Allan, Bruce W; Skidmore, Donald C; Rose, Gregory V; 
> > Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P; Duyck, Alexander H; David S. Miller
> > Subject: [PATCH] igb: correct hardware type (i210/i211) check in 
> > igb_loopback_test()
> > 
> > In the original code
> > ...
> >     if ((adapter->hw.mac.type == e1000_i210)
> >             || (adapter->hw.mac.type == e1000_i210)) { ...
> > the second check of 'adapter->hw.mac.type' is pointless since it tests for 
> > the exact same value as the first.
> > 
> > After reading through a few other parts of the driver I believe that the 
> > second check was actually intended to check for 'e1000_i211'
> > rather than 'e1000_i210', but I admit that I'm not certain so someone with 
> > more knowledge about this driver should ACK the patch before it gets merged.
> > 
> > Unfortunately I have no hardware to actually test this on, so it is compile 
> > tested only.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_ethtool.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_ethtool.c 
> > b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_ethtool.c
> > index a19c84c..ad489b7 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_ethtool.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_ethtool.c
> > @@ -1783,7 +1783,7 @@ static int igb_loopback_test(struct igb_adapter 
> > *adapter, u64 *data)
> >             goto out;
> >     }
> >     if ((adapter->hw.mac.type == e1000_i210)
> > -           || (adapter->hw.mac.type == e1000_i210)) {
> > +           || (adapter->hw.mac.type == e1000_i211)) {
> >             dev_err(&adapter->pdev->dev,
> >                     "Loopback test not supported "
> >                     "on this part at this time.\n");
> > --
> > 1.7.11.3
> > 
> 
> ACK.
> 
> Good catch.  Thanks Jesper!
> 
> Carolyn
> 
> Carolyn Wyborny
> Linux Development
> LAN Access Division
> Intel Corporation
> 
Thank you for the ack Carolyn.

David: will you take this in the networking tree?


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