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be2net: fix unnecessary access to hardware to get link, port info
authorAjit Khaparde <ajitk@serverengines.com>
Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:57:46 +0000 (17:57 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Wed, 2 Dec 2009 08:50:26 +0000 (00:50 -0800)
commit0dffc83e5b831df1df83dfe32a0c267347f9950b
treedad072dd1c206cdcb0e55ccfa92276a1bca54123tree | snapshot (tar.gz zip)
parentb7b83ac39a177741a378d728d82e87de9b0a01a5commit | diff
be2net: fix unnecessary access to hardware to get link, port info

Every time while doing ethtool->get_settings we are accessing
the hardware to get link status and port information.
This is not necessary.  We now use the cached copy for this info
and update it when the link status changes.

From: Suresh R <sureshr@serverengines.com>

Signed-off-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajitk@serverengines.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/benet/be.h diff | blob | blame | history
drivers/net/benet/be_ethtool.c diff | blob | blame | history
drivers/net/benet/be_main.c diff | blob | blame | history