On Sat, 16 Jan 2021 14:45:25 +0100 Heiner Kallweit wrote: > The comment is quite weird, there is no such thing as a vendor-specific > VPD id. 0x82 is the value of PCI_VPD_LRDT_ID_STRING. So what we are > doing here is simply checking whether the byte at VPD address VPD_BASE > is a valid string LRDT, same as what is done a few lines later in > the code. > LRDT = Large Resource Data Tag, see PCI 2.2 spec, VPD chapter > > Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallwe...@gmail.com>
Did you find this by code inspection? > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/t4_hw.c > b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/t4_hw.c > index 2c80371f9..48f20a6a0 100644 > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/t4_hw.c > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/t4_hw.c > @@ -2689,7 +2689,6 @@ void t4_get_regs(struct adapter *adap, void *buf, > size_t buf_size) > #define VPD_BASE 0x400 > #define VPD_BASE_OLD 0 > #define VPD_LEN 1024 > -#define CHELSIO_VPD_UNIQUE_ID 0x82 > > /** > * t4_eeprom_ptov - translate a physical EEPROM address to virtual > @@ -2743,9 +2742,9 @@ int t4_seeprom_wp(struct adapter *adapter, bool enable) > */ > int t4_get_raw_vpd_params(struct adapter *adapter, struct vpd_params *p) > { > - int i, ret = 0, addr; > + int i, ret = 0, addr = VPD_BASE; IMHO it's more readable if the addr is set to BASE or BASE_OLD in one place rather than having a default value at variable init which may be overwritten. > int ec, sn, pn, na; > - u8 *vpd, csum; > + u8 *vpd, csum, base_val = 0; > unsigned int vpdr_len, kw_offset, id_len; > > vpd = vmalloc(VPD_LEN); > @@ -2755,17 +2754,12 @@ int t4_get_raw_vpd_params(struct adapter *adapter, > struct vpd_params *p) > /* Card information normally starts at VPD_BASE but early cards had > * it at 0. > */ > - ret = pci_read_vpd(adapter->pdev, VPD_BASE, sizeof(u32), vpd); > + ret = pci_read_vpd(adapter->pdev, VPD_BASE, 1, &base_val); Are we sure this works? I've seen silicon out there which has problems with small PCI accesses (granted those were not VPD accesses). > if (ret < 0) > goto out; > > - /* The VPD shall have a unique identifier specified by the PCI SIG. > - * For chelsio adapters, the identifier is 0x82. The first byte of a VPD > - * shall be CHELSIO_VPD_UNIQUE_ID (0x82). The VPD programming software > - * is expected to automatically put this entry at the > - * beginning of the VPD. > - */ > - addr = *vpd == CHELSIO_VPD_UNIQUE_ID ? VPD_BASE : VPD_BASE_OLD; > + if (base_val != PCI_VPD_LRDT_ID_STRING) > + addr = VPD_BASE_OLD; > > ret = pci_read_vpd(adapter->pdev, addr, VPD_LEN, vpd); > if (ret < 0)