[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH iwl-next v3 1/3] ice: remove SW side band access workaround for E825

[Simon Horman]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 02:15:36PM +0100, Grzegorz Nitka wrote:
> From: Karol Kolacinski <karol.kolacinski at intel.com>
> 
> Due to the bug in FW/NVM autoload mechanism (wrong default
> SB_REM_DEV_CTL register settings), the access to peer PHY and CGU
> clients was disabled by default.
> 
> As the workaround solution, the register value was overwritten by the
> driver at the probe or reset handling.
> Remove workaround as it's not needed anymore. The fix in autoload
> procedure has been provided with NVM 3.80 version.
> 
> NOTE: at the time the fix was provided in NVM, the E825C product was
> not officially available on the market, so it's not expected this change
> will cause regression when running with older driver/kernel versions.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Michal Swiatkowski <michal.swiatkowski at linux.intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel at intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Karol Kolacinski <karol.kolacinski at intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Grzegorz Nitka <grzegorz.nitka at intel.com>

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms at kernel.org>