netdev - Re: [PATCH net v2 0/2] qlcnic fixes

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Date:	Thu, 10 Mar 2016 16:16:35 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	rajesh.borundia@...gic.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Dept-HSGLinuxNICDev@...gic.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2 0/2] qlcnic fixes

From: Rajesh Borundia <rajesh.borundia@...gic.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 02:39:56 -0500

> This series adds following fixes.
> 
> o While processing mailbox if driver gets a spurious mailbox
>   interrupt it leads into premature completion of a next
>   mailbox request. Added a guard against this by checking current
>   state of mailbox and ignored spurious interrupt.
>   Added a stats counter to record this condition.
> 
> v2:
> 
> o Added patch that removes usage of atomic_t as we are not implemeting
>   atomicity by using atomic_t value.
> 
> Please apply these fixes to net.

As explained in other list postings, 'net' is basically closed for this
release cycle, so I applied this series to 'net-next'.

Let me know if you'd like me to therefore queue these changes up for
-stable.

Thanks.