netdev - Re: [PATCH net 0/3] bnxt

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Date:   Tue, 11 Jul 2017 10:32:55 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     michael.chan@...adcom.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 0/3] bnxt_en: Bug fixes.

From: Michael Chan <michael.chan@...adcom.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 13:05:33 -0400

> 3 bug fixes in this series.  Fix a crash in bnxt_get_stats64() that can
> happen if the device is closing and freeing the statistics block at the
> same time.  The 2nd one fixes ethtool -L failing when changing from
> combined to non-combined mode or vice versa.  The last one fixes SRIOV
> failure on big-endian systems because we were setting a bitmap wrong in
> a firmware message.

Series applied, thanks Michael.

We really should look into generically taking care of the ->ndo_close()
vs. statistics pulling synchronization so that every driver doesn't
need to have code like this.