netdev - Re: [net-next 0/9][pull request] Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates

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Date:	Tue, 01 Oct 2013 12:51:16 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, gospo@...hat.com, sassmann@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [net-next 0/9][pull request] Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates

From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Date: Tue,  1 Oct 2013 04:33:47 -0700

> This series contains updates to ixgbevf, ixgbe and igb.
> 
> Don provides 3 patches for ixgbevf where he cleans up a redundant
> read mailbox failure check, adds a new function to wait for receive
> queues to be disabled before disabling NAPI, and move the API
> negotiation so that it occurs in the reset path.  This will allow
> the PF to be informed of the API version earlier.
> 
> Jacob provides a ixgbevf and ixgbe patch.  His ixgbevf patch removes
> the use of hw_dbg when the ixgbe_get_regs function is called in ethtool.
> The ixgbe patch renames the LL_EXTENDED_STATS and some of the functions
> required to implement busy polling in order to remove the marketing
> "low latency" blurb which hides what the code actually does.
> 
> Leonardo provides a ixgbe patch to add support for DCB registers dump
> using ethtool for 82599 and x540 ethernet controllers.
> 
> I (Jeff) provide a ixgbe patch to cleanup whitespace issues seen in a
> code review.
> 
> Todd provides for igb to add support for i354 in the ethtool offline
> tests.
> 
> Laura provides an igb patch to add the ethtool callbacks necessary to
> configure the number of RSS queues.

Pulled, thanks Jeff.

Please address Ben Hutching's concerns about the state of the device
after a number of channels configuration failure with follow-on
changes, if necessary.

Thanks.
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