netdev - Re: [net-next 0/5][pull request] Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates 2015-10-03

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Message-Id: <20151007.030211.1337871252750783070.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 07 Oct 2015 03:02:11 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, nhorman@...hat.com, sassmann@...hat.com,
	jogreene@...hat.com, john.ronciak@...el.com
Subject: Re: [net-next 0/5][pull request] Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates
 2015-10-03

From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Date: Sat,  3 Oct 2015 19:54:38 -0700

> This series contains updates to i40e and i40evf, some of which are to
> resolve more Red Hat bugzilla issues.
> 
> Jiang Liu updates the i40e and i40evf drivers to use numa_mem_id()
> instead of numa_node_id() to get the nearest node with memory which
> better supports memoryless nodes.
> 
> Anjali fixes an issue from Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
> to resolve a memory leak in X722 RSS configuration path, where we should
> free the memory allocated before exiting.
> 
> Shannon modifies the drivers to ensure we have the spinlocks before we
> clear the ARQ and ASQ management registers.  In addition, we widen the
> locked portion insert a sanity check to ensure we are working with safe
> register values.
> 
> Mitch fixes an issue where under certain circumstances, we can get an
> extra VF_RESOURCES message from the PF driver at runtime.  When this
> occurs, we need to parse it because our VSI may have changed and that
> will affect the relationship with the PF driver.  But this parsing also
> blows away our current MAC address, so resolve the issue by restoring
> the current MAC address from the netdev struct after we parse the
> resource message.

Series applied, thanks Jeff.
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