netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] sfc: reduce severity of PIO buffer alloc failures

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Date:   Wed, 25 Jan 2017 14:44:10 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     bkenward@...arflare.com
Cc:     tpilar@...arflare.com, linux-net-drivers@...arflare.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] sfc: reduce severity of PIO buffer alloc
 failures

From: Bert Kenward <bkenward@...arflare.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 13:48:17 +0000

> From: Tomáš Pilař <tpilar@...arflare.com>
> 
> PIO buffer allocation can fail for two valid reasons:
>  - we've run out of them (results in -ENOSPC)
>  - the NIC configuration doesn't support them (results in -EPERM)
> Since both these failures are expected netif_err is excessive.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bert Kenward <bkenward@...arflare.com>

Applied.