netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net: systemport: Decouple flow control from __bcm_sysport_tx

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Message-Id: <20170113.122002.1603442400582097767.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Fri, 13 Jan 2017 12:20:03 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     f.fainelli@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: systemport: Decouple flow control from
 __bcm_sysport_tx_reclaim

From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 12:09:09 -0800

> The __bcm_sysport_tx_reclaim() function is used to reclaim transmit
> resources in different places within the driver. Most of them should
> not affect the state of the transit flow control.
> 
> Introduce bcm_sysport_tx_clean() which cleans the ring, but does not
> re-enable flow control towards the networking stack, and make
> bcm_sysport_tx_reclaim() do the actual transmit queue flow control.
> 
> Fixes: 80105befdb4b ("net: systemport: add Broadcom SYSTEMPORT Ethernet MAC driver")
> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable.