netdev - Re: [net-next] tg3: allow ethtool -p to work for NICs in down state

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Date:   Tue, 02 Apr 2019 10:55:22 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     jmaxwell37@...il.com
Cc:     siva.kallam@...adcom.com, prashant@...adcom.com,
        mchan@...adcom.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jmaxwell@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [net-next] tg3: allow ethtool -p to work for NICs in down state

From: Jon Maxwell <jmaxwell37@...il.com>
Date: Tue,  2 Apr 2019 16:07:56 +1100

> Make tg3 behave like other drivers and let "ethtool -p" identify the
> NIC even when it's in the DOWN state. Before this patch it would get an 
> error as follows if the NIC was down:
> 
> # ip link set down dev em4
> # ethtool -p em4
> Cannot identify NIC: Resource temporarily unavailable
> 
> With this patch ethtool identify works regardless of whether the NIC is up
> or down as it does for other drivers.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jon Maxwell <jmaxwell37@...il.com>

Applied, thanks Jon.