From: Dhananjay Phadke <dhananjay@netxen.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 11:41:43 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: netxen: avoid frequent firmware reset
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.31-rc3~70^2~35
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=67c38fc61af930fa03b042932b6b14fbf8126222;p=pandora-kernel.git

netxen: avoid frequent firmware reset

Restrict firmware reset to following cases -

o chip rev is NX2031 (firmare doesn't support heartbit).
o firmware is dead.
o previous attempt to init firmware had failed.
o we have got newer file firmware.

This speeds up module load tremendously (by upto 8 sec),
also avoids downtime for NCSI (management) pass-thru
traffic.

Signed-off-by: Dhananjay Phadke <dhananjay@netxen.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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