netdev - Re: [net-next v2 00/15][pull request] 1GbE Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates 2020-05-21

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Message-ID: <20200522102756.1b9d3feb@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com>
Date:   Fri, 22 May 2020 10:27:56 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, nhorman@...hat.com,
        sassmann@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [net-next v2 00/15][pull request] 1GbE Intel Wired LAN Driver
 Updates 2020-05-21

On Thu, 21 May 2020 17:10:53 -0700 Jeff Kirsher wrote:
> This series contains updates to igc and e1000.
> 
> Andre cleans up code that was left over from the igb driver that handled
> MAC address filters based on the source address, which is not currently
> supported.  Simplifies the MAC address filtering code and prepare the
> igc driver for future source address support.  Updated the MAC address
> filter internal APIs to support filters based on source address.  Added
> support for Network Flow Classification (NFC) rules based on source MAC
> address.  Cleaned up the 'cookie' field which is not used anywhere in
> the code and cleaned up a wrapper function that was not needed.
> Simplified the filtering code for readability and aligned the ethtool
> functions, so that function names were consistent.
> 
> Alex provides a fix for e1000 to resolve a deadlock issue when NAPI is
> being disabled.
> 
> Sasha does additional cleanup of the igc driver of dead code that is not
> used or needed.

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