netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] cxgb4: Shutdown adapter if firmware times out or errors out

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Date:   Mon, 16 Jan 2017 13:35:43 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     hariprasad@...lsio.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, leedom@...lsio.com, nirranjan@...lsio.com,
        ganeshgr@...lsio.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] cxgb4: Shutdown adapter if firmware times out
 or errors out

From: Hariprasad Shenai <hariprasad@...lsio.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 21:55:26 +0530

> Perform an emergency shutdown of the adapter and stop it from
> continuing any further communication on the ports or DMA to the
> host. This is typically used when the adapter and/or firmware
> have crashed and we want to prevent any further accidental
> communication with the rest of the world. This will also force
> the port Link Status to go down -- if register writes work --
> which should help our peers figure out that we're down.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hariprasad Shenai <hariprasad@...lsio.com>

Applied, thank you.