[Intel-wired-lan] Possible read-modify-write bug in ixgbe x550 phy setup

Shannon Nelson shannon.nelson at oracle.com
Fri Feb 2 21:21:38 UTC 2018


On 2/2/2018 1:08 PM, Tantilov, Emil S wrote:
> Just FYI - we looked at the reads and confirmed that there is no functional
> bug in the code because as it happens the CX1/SR bits is the only bits that
> are read and set and as such we don't lose any data. This of course means
> that the read is not needed and we'll just remove it.

Great - I'm glad to see it happens to work.  You might think about 
keeping that read for future safety and fixing the '=', but I'm not 
going to worry about it.

sln



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