netdev - Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 4/5] ixgbe: fix failing to log fan failures

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Message-Id: <20090507.145623.51243600.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 07 May 2009 14:56:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, gospo@...hat.com,
	donald.c.skidmore@...el.com, peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com
Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 4/5] ixgbe: fix failing to log fan failures

From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 13:39:54 -0700

> We weren't logging the 82598AT fan failure if it occurred before (ixgbe_open)
> as we hadn't sent up to catch the interrupt that event caused.
> 
> This patch checks for this failure in:
> ixgbe_probe - So we can log the failure asap. We check right after we
> set up the adapter->flags, which is when we know that we have a fan.
> ixgbe_up_complete - To catch failures that may have happened between probe
> and when we set up the interrupt that would normally detect the fan failure.
> 
> To enable all of this we need to initialize the adapter flag with
> IXGBE_FLAG_FAN_FAIL_CAPABLE when the NIC contained a fan.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Don Skidmore <donald.c.skidmore@...el.com>
> Acked-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>

Applied.
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