Patch "Revert "bnx2: Reset device during driver initialization"" has been added to the 4.8-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

Revert "bnx2: Reset device during driver initialization"

to the 4.8-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
revert-bnx2-reset-device-during-driver-initialization.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Baoquan He <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2016 13:01:32 +0800
Subject: Revert "bnx2: Reset device during driver initialization"

From: Baoquan He <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 5d0d4b91bf627f14f95167b738d524156c9d440b ]

This reverts commit 3e1be7ad2d38c6bd6aeef96df9bd0a7822f4e51c.

When people build bnx2 driver into kernel, it will fail to detect and load firmware because firmware is contained in initramfs and initramfs has not been uncompressed yet during do_initcalls. So revert commit 3e1be7a and work out a new way in the later patch.

---
 drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2.c |   12 +++++-------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

@@ -6356,6 +6356,10 @@ bnx2_open(struct net_device *dev)
 	struct bnx2 *bp = netdev_priv(dev);
 	int rc;
 
+	rc = bnx2_request_firmware(bp);
+	if (rc < 0)
+		goto out;
+
 	netif_carrier_off(dev);
 
 	bnx2_disable_int(bp);

@@ -6424,6 +6428,7 @@ open_err:
 	bnx2_free_irq(bp);
 	bnx2_free_mem(bp);
 	bnx2_del_napi(bp);
+	bnx2_release_firmware(bp);
 	goto out;
 }
 

@@ -8570,12 +8575,6 @@ bnx2_init_one(struct pci_dev *pdev, cons
 
 	pci_set_drvdata(pdev, dev);
 
-	rc = bnx2_request_firmware(bp);
-	if (rc < 0)
-		goto error;
-
-
-	bnx2_reset_chip(bp, BNX2_DRV_MSG_CODE_RESET);
 	memcpy(dev->dev_addr, bp->mac_addr, ETH_ALEN);
 
 	dev->hw_features = NETIF_F_IP_CSUM | NETIF_F_SG |

@@ -8608,7 +8607,6 @@ bnx2_init_one(struct pci_dev *pdev, cons
 	return 0;
 
 error:
-	bnx2_release_firmware(bp);
 	pci_iounmap(pdev, bp->regview);
 	pci_release_regions(pdev);
 	pci_disable_device(pdev);

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.8/revert-bnx2-reset-device-during-driver-initialization.patch queue-4.8/bnx2-wait-for-in-flight-dma-to-complete-at-probe-stage.patch