[PATCH v2] net/txgbe: fix the missing old mailbox interface calls

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Wed Nov 26 22:43:32 CET 2025


On Wed, 26 Nov 2025 16:56:49 +0800
Jiawen Wu <jiawenwu at trustnetic.com> wrote:

> For different devices, the mailbox flow between software and firmware is
> different. There are several mailbox command in the txgbe driver, but only
> txgbe_hic_sr_read() was changed to use the new flow.
> 
> It lead to other mailbox commands timeout for Amber-Lite devices, which
> is required to use the new flow. So this patch fills in the missing part.
> 
> For the sake of code tidy, txgbe_hic_sr_read() should change to use the
> locked function txgbe_host_interface_command(), and this function could
> be change to pointer in struct txgbe_mbx_info for different devices.
> 
> Fixes: 6a139ade82e7 ("net/txgbe: add new SW-FW mailbox interface")
> Signed-off-by: Jiawen Wu <jiawenwu at trustnetic.com>
> ---

Queued to next-net


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