netdev - Re: [PATCH net v6 1/1] xen-netback: Handle backend state transitions in a more robust way

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Message-Id: <20130930.151425.434087184713961553.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 30 Sep 2013 15:14:25 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	Ian.Campbell@...rix.com
Cc:	paul.durrant@...rix.com, xen-devel@...ts.xen.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, wei.liu2@...rix.com,
	david.vrabel@...rix.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v6 1/1] xen-netback: Handle backend state
 transitions in a more robust way

From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@...rix.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 14:07:33 +0100

> On Thu, 2013-09-26 at 12:09 +0100, Paul Durrant wrote:
>> When the frontend state changes netback now specifies its desired state to
>> a new function, set_backend_state(), which transitions through any
>> necessary intermediate states.
>> This fixes an issue observed with some old Windows frontend drivers where
>> they failed to transition through the Closing state and netback would not
>> behave correctly.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@...rix.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@...rix.com>

Applied, thanks.
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