Stephen Hemminger wrote:

Cleanup and harden the routines accessing the EEPROM.
  1. Prevent spin forever waiting for the TWSI bus
  2. Fix write eeprom to write full words rather than only 16 bits 
    Luckly the vendor doesn't provide EEPROM in Linux format so it must never
    have been used.
  3. Don't allow partial eeprom writes, not needed, not safe.

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You should be able to replace the VPD access code with calls through
pci_dev->vpd->ops - though you'd need to remove some declarations from
drivers/pci/pci.h to include/linux/pci.h.

Ben.

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