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authorStefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>2017-09-06 10:11:38 +0200
committerJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>2017-10-10 07:54:35 -0700
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i40e: Fix comment about locking for __i40e_read_nvm_word()
Caller needs to acquire the lock. Called functions will not. Fixes: 09f79fd49d94 ("i40e: avoid NVM acquire deadlock during NVM update") Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com> Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_nvm.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_nvm.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_nvm.c
index 57505b1df98d..d591b3e6bd7c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_nvm.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_nvm.c
@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ static i40e_status i40e_read_nvm_word_aq(struct i40e_hw *hw, u16 offset,
}
/**
- * __i40e_read_nvm_word - Reads nvm word, assumes called does the locking
+ * __i40e_read_nvm_word - Reads nvm word, assumes caller does the locking
* @hw: pointer to the HW structure
* @offset: offset of the Shadow RAM word to read (0x000000 - 0x001FFF)
* @data: word read from the Shadow RAM