[PATCH] [9/11] pasemi_mac: clear out old errors on interface open

Jeff Garzik jgarzik at pobox.com
Thu Oct 4 03:46:16 EST 2007


Olof Johansson wrote:
> pasemi_mac: clear out old errors on interface open
> 
> Clear out any pending errors when an interface is brought up. Since the bits
> are sticky, they might be from interface shutdown time after firmware has
> used it, etc.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof at lixom.net>

In general, interface-open should completely reset and initialize the 
hardware.  does pasemi_mac not do that?

	Jeff






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