netdev - Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH net v6 1/1] xen-netback: Handle backend state transitions in a more robust way

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Date:	Thu, 26 Sep 2013 14:16:03 +0100
From:	Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@...rix.com>
To:	Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@...rix.com>
CC:	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Wei Liu <wei.liu2@...rix.com>,
	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>,
	<xen-devel@...ts.xen.org>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH net v6 1/1] xen-netback: Handle backend
 state transitions in a more robust way

On Thu, 2013-09-26 at 14:07 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-09-26 at 12:09 +0100, Paul Durrant wrote:
> > When the frontend state changes netback now specifies its desired state to
> > a new function, set_backend_state(), which transitions through any
> > necessary intermediate states.
> > This fixes an issue observed with some old Windows frontend drivers where
> > they failed to transition through the Closing state and netback would not
> > behave correctly.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@...rix.com>

Sorry, trimmed my quotes too aggressively and nuked my Ack ;-)

Ian.


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