Commit bc7959b2 authored Aug 15, 2008 by Matt Carlson Committed by David S. Miller Aug 15, 2008

tg3: Turn off ASF "driver alive" heartbeats for APE



The ENABLE_ASF flag is set when DASH is enabled on the NIC, but DASH
does not run on the RX CPU.  Instead it runs on the APE.
Consequently, the driver does not need to send "driver alive" updates
to the RX CPU when the APE is present.

Signed-off-by: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

parent 3bda1258

drivers/net/tg3.c

+2 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -7862,7 +7862,8 @@ static void tg3_timer(unsigned long __opaque)
		* resets.
		*/
		if (!--tp->asf_counter) {
		if (tp->tg3_flags & TG3_FLAG_ENABLE_ASF) {
		if ((tp->tg3_flags & TG3_FLAG_ENABLE_ASF) &&
		!(tp->tg3_flags3 & TG3_FLG3_ENABLE_APE)) {
		u32 val;

		tg3_wait_for_event_ack(tp);

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