netdev - Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH] ixgbe: DCB: remove DCB check config

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Message-Id: <20101015.092756.71096200.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 15 Oct 2010 09:27:56 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, gospo@...hat.com, bphilips@...ell.com,
	john.r.fastabend@...el.com
Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH] ixgbe: DCB: remove DCB check config

From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 22:21:22 -0700

> From: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@...el.com>
> 
> Remove a DCB check config from DCB configuration we
> continue to configure DCB even if it fails so don't
> even bother to check.  Plus user space (lldpad) checks
> this before programming the hw anyways.
> 
> Worse case is we program some values into the hw that
> don't make total sense resulting in incorrect bandwidth
> allocation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>

Applied, thanks.
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