netdev - Re: [net-next v2 00/15][pull request] 100GbE Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates 2016-04-05

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Date:	Tue, 05 Apr 2016 16:09:17 -0400 (EDT)
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 v2 00/15][pull request] 100GbE Intel Wired LAN
 Driver Updates 2016-04-05

From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Date: Tue,  5 Apr 2016 13:02:12 -0700

> This series contains updates to fm10k only.
> 
> Bruce provides nearly half of the patches in the series, most of which do
> general cleanup of the driver.  These include semantic cleanups,
> checkpatch.pl fixes, update driver to use BIT() kernel macro, use
> BUILD_BUG_ON() where appropriate and use ether_addr_copy() instead of
> memcpy().
> 
> Jake provides the remaining patches in the series, starting with a fix
> for a possible NULL pointer deference.  Next delays initialization of the
> service timer and service task until late in probe().  If we do not wait,
> failures in probe do not properly cleanup the service timer or service
> task items which result in a kernel panic.  Added better reporting during
> error conditions.  Fixed another possible kernel panic where we were
> clearing the interrupt scheme before we freed the mailbox IRQ.  Added
> helper functions for setting strings and data for ethtool stats.  Fixed
> comment mis-spelled words.
> 
> v2: Dropped patch 3 from the original submission, until a better solution
>     can be worked up based on feedback from Joe Perches and David Miller.

Pulled, thanks Jeff.