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Commit 845adfe4 authored by Michael Chan's avatar Michael Chan Committed by David S. Miller
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bnxt_en: Improve valid bit checking in firmware response message.



When firmware sends a DMA response to the driver, the last byte of the
message will be set to 1 to indicate that the whole response is valid.
The driver waits for the message to be valid before reading the message.

The firmware spec allows these response messages to increase in
length by adding new fields to the end of these messages.  The
older spec's valid location may become a new field in a newer
spec.  To guarantee compatibility, the driver should zero the valid
byte before interpreting the entire message so that any new fields not
implemented by the older spec will be read as zero.

For messages that are forwarded to VFs, we need to set the length
and re-instate the valid bit so the VF will see the valid response.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Chan <michael.chan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 596f9d55
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