netdev - Re: [net-next 0/8][pull request] Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates 2015-09-17

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Date:	Sun, 20 Sep 2015 22:27:11 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, nhorman@...hat.com, sassmann@...hat.com,
	jogreene@...hat.com, john.ronciak@...el.com
Subject: Re: [net-next 0/8][pull request] Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates
 2015-09-17

From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 17:17:52 -0700

> This series contains updates to i40e and i40evf.
> 
> Shannon provides updates to i40e and i40evf to resolve an issue with the
> nvmupdate utility.  First renames a variable name to reduce confusion and
> to differentiate it from the actual user variable.  Then added the ability
> to save the admin queue write back descriptor if a caller supplies a
> buffer for it to be saved into.  Added a new GetStatus command so that
> the NVM update tool can query the current status instead of doing fake
> write requests to probe for readiness.  Added wait states to the NVM
> update state machine to signify when waiting for an update operation to
> finish, whether we are in the middle of a set of write operations, or we
> are now idle but waiting.  Then added a facility to run admin queue
> commands through the NVM update utility in order to allow the update
> tools to interact with the firmware and do special commands needed for
> updates and configuration changes.  Also added a facility to recover the
> result of a previously run admin queue command.

Pulled, thanks Jeff.
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