From: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 10:11:38 +0200
Subject: i40e: Fix comment about locking for __i40e_read_nvm_word()
Patch-mainline: v4.14-rc6
Git-commit: e836e3211229d7307660239cc957f2ab60e6aa00
References: bsc#1056658 FATE#322188
Caller needs to acquire the lock. Called functions will not.
Fixes: 09f79fd49d94 ("i40e: avoid NVM acquire deadlock during NVM update")
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tbogendoerfer@suse.de>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_nvm.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_nvm.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_nvm.c
@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ static i40e_status i40e_read_nvm_word_aq
}
/**
- * __i40e_read_nvm_word - Reads nvm word, assumes called does the locking
+ * __i40e_read_nvm_word - Reads nvm word, assumes caller does the locking
* @hw: pointer to the HW structure
* @offset: offset of the Shadow RAM word to read (0x000000 - 0x001FFF)
* @data: word read from the Shadow RAM