netdev - Re: [net-next v3 0/8][pull request] 40GbE Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates 2020-06-25

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Date:   Fri, 26 Jun 2020 12:22:49 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, nhorman@...hat.com, sassmann@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [net-next v3 0/8][pull request] 40GbE Intel Wired LAN Driver
 Updates 2020-06-25

From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2020 23:28:42 -0700

> This series contains updates to i40e driver and removes the individual
> driver versions from all of the Intel wired LAN drivers.
> 
> Shiraz moves the client header so that it can easily be shared between
> the i40e LAN driver and i40iw RDMA driver.
> 
> Jesse cleans up the unused defines, since they are just dead weight.
> 
> Alek reduces the unreasonably long wait time for a PF reset after reboot
> by using jiffies to limit the maximum wait time for the PF reset to
> succeed.  Added additional logging to let the user know when the driver
> transitions into recovery mode.  Adds new device support for our 5 Gbps
> NICs.
> 
> Todd adds a check to see if MFS is set after warm reboot and notifies
> the user when MFS is set to anything lower than the default value.
> 
> Arkadiusz fixes a possible race condition, where were holding a
> spin-lock while in atomic context.
> 
> v2: removed code comments that were no longer applicable in patch 2 of
>     the series.  Also removed 'inline' from patch 4 and patch 8 of the
>     series.  Also re-arranged code to be able to remove the forward
>     function declarations.  Dropped patch 9 of the series, while the
>     author works on cleaning up the commit message.
> v3: Updated patch 8 description to answer Jakub's questions
> 
> The following are changes since commit 6d29302652587001038c8f5ac0e0c7fa6592bbbc:
>   Merge tag 'mlx5-updates-2020-06-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/saeed/linux
> and are available in the git repository at:
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jkirsher/next-queue 40GbE

Pulled, thanks Jeff.