From: "Matt Carlson" <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:51:10 -0800
> If management firmware is present and the device is down, the firmware > will assume control of the phy. If a phy access were allowed from the > host, it will collide with firmware phy accesses, resulting in > unpredictable behavior. This patch fixes the problem by disallowing phy > accesses during the problematic condition. > > Signed-off-by: Matt Carlson <[email protected]> > Reviewed-by: Michael Chan <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]> Applied. _______________________________________________ stable mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable
