netdev - Re: [PATCH net] ibmvnic: Revise RX/TX queue error messages

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Message-Id: <20180716.140054.1655734388262697764.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Mon, 16 Jul 2018 14:00:54 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     tlfalcon@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, jallen@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
        nfont@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ibmvnic: Revise RX/TX queue error messages

From: Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 12:03:32 -0500

> During a device failover, there may be latency between the loss
> of the current backing device and a notification from firmware that
> a failover has occurred. This latency can result in a large amount of
> error printouts as firmware returns outgoing traffic with a generic
> error code. These are not necessarily errors in this case as the
> firmware is busy swapping in a new backing adapter and is not ready
> to send packets yet. This patch reclassifies those error codes as
> warnings with an explanation that a failover may be pending. All
> other return codes will be considered errors.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

Applied.