netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH 0/3] bnx2x: Link flap avoidance added

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Date:	Thu, 13 Sep 2012 15:01:51 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	yuvalmin@...adcom.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, eilong@...adcom.com, ariele@...adcom.com
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 0/3] bnx2x: Link flap avoidance added

From: "Yuval Mintz" <yuvalmin@...adcom.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 15:56:18 +0300

> In various flows in the bnx2x driver, the link is toggled unnecessarily -
> In such flows, if the link is already up it would be pulled down than
> raised up again, even if no change in the link was requested by the
> user.
> 
> This patch series tries to eliminate this problem, or at least to greatly
> reduce the number of cases that would actually cause such a scenario to
> happen.
> 
> Please consider applying this patch series to 'net-next'.

All applied, thanks.
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