netdev - RE: [Intel-wired-lan] Issue with driver i40e stat strings count mismatch

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Date:   Tue, 31 Jul 2018 18:29:32 +0000
From:   "Keller, Jacob E" <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>
To:     "Wyborny, Carolyn" <carolyn.wyborny@...el.com>,
        Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>,
        Stefan Assmann <sassmann@...nic.de>
CC:     "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        intel-wired-lan <intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org>,
        "Topel, Bjorn" <bjorn.topel@...el.com>
Subject: RE: [Intel-wired-lan] Issue with driver i40e stat strings count
 mismatch



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wyborny, Carolyn
> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2018 8:53 AM
> To: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>; Stefan Assmann
> <sassmann@...nic.de>; Keller, Jacob E <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>
> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org; intel-wired-lan <intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org>;
> Topel, Bjorn <bjorn.topel@...el.com>; Keller, Jacob E
> <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>
> Subject: RE: [Intel-wired-lan] Issue with driver i40e stat strings count mismatch
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Intel-wired-lan [mailto:intel-wired-lan-bounces@...osl.org] On
> > Behalf Of Jesper Dangaard Brouer
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2018 7:29 AM
> > To: Stefan Assmann <sassmann@...nic.de>; Keller, Jacob E
> > <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>
> > Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org; intel-wired-lan <intel-wired-
> > lan@...ts.osuosl.org>; brouer@...hat.com; Topel, Bjorn
> > <bjorn.topel@...el.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Intel-wired-lan] Issue with driver i40e stat strings count
> > mismatch
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 31 Jul 2018 09:05:40 +0200 Stefan Assmann
> > <sassmann@...nic.de> wrote:
> >
> > > From: Stefan Assmann <sassmann@...nic.de>
> > > To: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>,  Jeff Kirsher
> > <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
> > > Cc: Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@...el.com>,
> > "alexander.h.duyck@...el.com" <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>,  intel-
> > wired-lan <intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org>,  "netdev@...r.kernel.org"
> > <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
> > > Subject: Re: Issue with driver i40e stat strings count mismatch
> > > Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2018 09:05:40 +0200
> > > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101
> > >  Thunderbird/52.9.1
> > > Message-ID: <64be8e6a-c285-2864-fd91-356eba645acd@...nic.de>
> > >
> > > On 10.07.2018 13:17, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> > > > Hi Intel-fokes,
> > > >
> > > > Your i40e driver have issues with it's ethtool stats.  A warning
> > > > triggers at drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ethtool.c line 1907
> > > > (see splash below) in func i40e_get_stat_strings().
> > >
> > > Hi Jesper,
> > >
> > > I ran into the same issue. Here's my proposed fix.
> >
> > Thanks for following up Stefan :-)
> >
> > I'm hoping some Intel people will look at evaluating this fix? ...
> >
> Thanks, we have a patch in process for this fix and other related ones from Jake
> Keller.  We'll expedite it.
> 
> Carolyn
> 
> Carolyn Wyborny
> Linux Development
> Networking Division
> Intel Corporation
> 
> 

Yea I found tihs issue a while ago and we had a patch internally. I suspect it just got lost in a shuffle earlier

I think we have an equivalent patch, but I don't care which gets applied.

Thanks,
Jake