netdev - Re: [PATCH net] ibmvnic: Fix partial success login retries

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Date:   Fri, 25 May 2018 16:36:47 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     tlfalcon@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, nfont@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
        jallen@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ibmvnic: Fix partial success login retries

From: Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 14:37:53 -0500

> In its current state, the driver will handle backing device
> login in a loop for a certain number of retries while the
> device returns a partial success, indicating that the driver
> may need to try again using a smaller number of resources.
> 
> The variable it checks to continue retrying may change
> over the course of operations, resulting in reallocation
> of resources but exits without sending the login attempt.
> Guard against this by introducing a boolean variable that
> will retain the state indicating that the driver needs to
> reattempt login with backing device firmware.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

Applied.