netdev - Re: Linux kernel commit breaks IPMI on iface downing

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Message-ID: <D214D9E7.BFB25%harish.patil@qlogic.com>
Date:	Wed, 9 Sep 2015 01:33:16 +0000
From:	Harish Patil <harish.patil@...gic.com>
To:	Michael Chan <mchan@...adcom.com>,
	Sébastien Bocahu <sbu@...ortlinker.com>
CC:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Ameen Rahman" <ameen.rahman@...gic.com>
Subject: Re: Linux kernel commit breaks IPMI on iface downing


>On Fri, 2015-09-04 at 09:55 +0200, Sébastien Bocahu wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Any chance this behaviour gets fixed, with either a new firmware or a
>> workaround in the kernel ?
>> 
>
>As I said earlier, when we call bnx2_shutdown_chip(), we inform the
>firmware that the driver is shutting down.  The firmware should know
>that there is IPMI firmware and the link needs to stay up.
>
>In the older driver, we would also call bnx2_set_power_state() which
>would send some additional messages to the firmware before putting the
>device in D3hot.  May be these messages are required by the firmware to
>keep the link up.  Harish, please check with your firmware team.
>Thanks.
>
>
>
>

Hi Michael/Sebastien,
ACK. Sure, I will look into it and get back.

Thanks,
Harish