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Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 12:43:40 -0700 (PDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com Cc: gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, neerav.parikh@...el.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org, catherine.sullivan@...el.com Subject: Re: [linux-stable] i40e: Don't stop driver probe when querying DCB config fails From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com> Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 04:30:55 -0700 > From: Neerav Parikh <neerav.parikh@...el.com> > > Commit id: 014269ff376f552363ecdab78d3d947fbe2237d9 in Linus's tree > should be queued up for stable 3.14 & 3.15 since the i40e driver will > not load when DCB is enabled, unless this patch is applied. > > In case of any AQ command to query port's DCB configuration fails > during driver's probe time; the probe fails and returns an error. > > This patch prevents this issue by continuing the driver probe even > when an error is returned. > > Also, added an error message to dump the AQ error status to show what > error caused the failure to get the DCB configuration from firmware. > > Change-ID: Ifd5663512588bca684069bb7d4fb586dd72221af > Signed-off-by: Neerav Parikh <neerav.parikh@...el.com> > Signed-off-by: Catherine Sullivan <catherine.sullivan@...el.com> > Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com> This is a very confusing submission. Is this an already applied patch that you want accepted into the -stable tree? If so, which tree(s)? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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