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There are two problems with EEPROM access. One is that it needs to hold the semaphore until the entire response is read or else the response can be corrupted by other firmware accesses. The second problem is that acquiring and releasing the semaphore is slow, so it should be taken and released once when multiple EEPROM accesses will be done. Both of these issues can be solved by adding a new function, ixgbe_hic_unlocked, to issue firmware commands that will assume that the caller has acquired the needed semaphore. Signed-off-by: Mark Rustad <mark.d.rustad@intel.com> Tested-by: Krishneil Singh <krishneil.k.singh@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.