netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] devlink: Implicitly set auto recover flag when registering health reporter

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Date:   Wed, 25 Mar 2020 11:33:36 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Eran Ben Elisha <eranbe@...lanox.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>,
        Michael Chan <michael.chan@...adcom.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] devlink: Implicitly set auto recover flag
 when registering health reporter

On Wed, 25 Mar 2020 15:26:23 +0200 Eran Ben Elisha wrote:
> When health reporter is registered to devlink, devlink will implicitly set
> auto recover if and only if the reporter has a recover method. No reason
> to explicitly get the auto recover flag from the driver.
> 
> Remove this flag from all drivers that called
> devlink_health_reporter_create.
> 
> Yet, administrator can unset auto recover via netlink command as prior to
> this patch.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eran Ben Elisha <eranbe@...lanox.com>
> Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>

It would have been useful to say that all the cases where auto-recovery
was disabled don't have the recover method.

Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>