netdev - Re: [net-next 0/6][pull request] 10GbE Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates 2018-05-17

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Date:   Thu, 17 May 2018 17:03:15 -0400 (EDT)
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
Subject: Re: [net-next 0/6][pull request] 10GbE Intel Wired LAN Driver
 Updates 2018-05-17

From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 09:37:26 -0700

> This series contains updates to ixgbe, ixgbevf and ice drivers.
> 
> Cathy Zhou resolves sparse warnings by using the force attribute.
> 
> Mauro S M Rodrigues fixes a bug where IRQs were not freed if a PCI error
> recovery system opts to remove the device which causes
> ixgbe_io_error_detected() to return PCI_ERS_RESULT_DISCONNECT before
> calling ixgbe_close_suspend() which results in IRQs not freed and
> crashing when the remove handler calls pci_disable_device().  Resolved
> this by calling ixgbe_close_suspend() before evaluating the PCI channel
> state.
> 
> Pavel Tatashin releases the rtnl_lock during the call to
> ixgbe_close_suspend() to allow scaling if device_shutdown() is
> multi-threaded.
> 
> Emil modifies ixgbe to not validate the MAC address during a reset,
> unless the MAC was set on the host so that the VF will get a new MAC
> address every time it reloads.  Also updates ixgbevf to set
> hw->mac.perm_addr in order to retain the custom MAC on a reset.
> 
> Anirudh updates the ice NVM read/erase/update AQ commands to align with
> the latest specification.

Series applied, thanks Jeff.