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Re: [PATCH] bcma: fix regression in pmu workaround reg masks

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From: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 11:15:51 +0200

> This fixes a regression introduced in:
> commit b9562545ef0b13c0440ccd8d6dd4111fb77cb17a
> Author: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Sat Jun 30 01:44:41 2012 +0200
> 
>     bcma: complete workaround for BCMA43224 and BCM4313
> 
> The regression broke reading of the sprom from the chip and seamed to
> cause a change of the pci id on a BCMA43224 device so that it is
> rejected by brcmsmac. If this problem occurred, after applying this
> patch, a cold boot is needed to make the device work again.
> 
> In the original patch the workaround set the intended bits in the chip
> common core chip control registers, but the patch also unset all the
> other bits in that register, because of a wrong mask. The original
> patch was based on code from brcmsmac and there was an additional
> inversing of the mask in the code setting these regs which was missing
> here. Now the regs are set like brcmsmac did it before.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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