netdev - Re: [PATCH net 5/5] net/ncsi: Fix length of GVI response packet

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Message-Id: <20171021.015726.910376579423539079.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Sat, 21 Oct 2017 01:57:26 +0100 (WEST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     sam@...dozajonas.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, gwshan@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 5/5] net/ncsi: Fix length of GVI response packet

From: Samuel Mendoza-Jonas <sam@...dozajonas.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 13:43:09 +1100

> From: Gavin Shan <gwshan@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> The length of GVI (GetVersionInfo) response packet should be 40 instead
> of 36. This issue was found from /sys/kernel/debug/ncsi/eth0/stats.
> 
>  # ethtool --ncsi eth0 swstats
>      :
>  RESPONSE     OK       TIMEOUT  ERROR
>  =======================================
>  GVI          0        0        2
> 
> With this applied, no error reported on GVI response packets:
> 
>  # ethtool --ncsi eth0 swstats
>      :
>  RESPONSE     OK       TIMEOUT  ERROR
>  =======================================
>  GVI          2        0        0
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <gwshan@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Samuel Mendoza-Jonas <sam@...dozajonas.com>

Applied.