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cnic: Add a signature to indicate valid doorbell offset.
authorEddie Wai <eddie.wai@broadcom.com>
Wed, 1 Jan 2014 07:18:34 +0000 (23:18 -0800)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Thu, 2 Jan 2014 03:08:08 +0000 (22:08 -0500)
commitcd6af4a897b9de8c1adea233fb2a6e3a5d9281fd
treeaa545877a174e1c3986d6dbe3ed42d08fce97940
parent8949ca27cd4ebb126f693a7c32c4e2ef39ad5993
cnic: Add a signature to indicate valid doorbell offset.

The buffer that is used to pass doorbell offset to the userspace UIO
driver may contain nonzero value in older versions of bnx2x driver.
Userspace cannot easily tell whether it contains a valid doorbell
offset or not.  With the added signature, userspace will only use
the doorbell offset if the signature is present.

Update version to 2.5.19.

Signed-off-by: Eddie Wai <eddie.wai@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/cnic.c
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/cnic.h
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/cnic_if.h