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authorYanir Lubetkin <yanirx.lubetkin@intel.com>2015-03-20 17:41:53 -0700
committerJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>2015-03-20 17:44:25 -0700
commit152c0a976c71386c67c89969acc427dc5cf802b8 (patch)
treecb9dc60e1bad1a59e6bc906f0e99f073eba412ef
parenta60a132e89cdb52621d154c78b69f7eb1307524d (diff)
downloadlinux-152c0a976c71386c67c89969acc427dc5cf802b8.tar.bz2
e1000e: NVM write protect access removed from SPT HW
The call to e1000e_write_protect_nvm_ich8lan() is no longer supported by HW. Access to these registers causes a system freeze in A step hardware and is ignored in B step hardware. This function must not be called in hardware newer than LPT. Signed-off-by: Yanir Lubetkin <yanirx.lubetkin@intel.com> Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c
index 8c95fb84226f..4e56c3195989 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c
@@ -6874,7 +6874,8 @@ static int e1000_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent)
goto err_hw_init;
if ((adapter->flags & FLAG_IS_ICH) &&
- (adapter->flags & FLAG_READ_ONLY_NVM))
+ (adapter->flags & FLAG_READ_ONLY_NVM) &&
+ (hw->mac.type < e1000_pch_spt))
e1000e_write_protect_nvm_ich8lan(&adapter->hw);
hw->mac.ops.get_bus_info(&adapter->hw);