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

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Date:	Tue, 01 Oct 2013 15:15:57 -0700
From:	Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, gospo@...hat.com, sassmann@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [net-next 0/9][pull request] Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates

On Tue, 2013-10-01 at 12:51 -0400, David Miller wrote:
> 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.

Understood, will do.

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