netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 00/10] bnxt

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Message-Id: <20200727.113629.107398328821127489.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Mon, 27 Jul 2020 11:36:29 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     michael.chan@...adcom.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, kuba@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 00/10] bnxt_en update.

From: Michael Chan <michael.chan@...adcom.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2020 23:29:36 -0400

> This patchset removes the PCIe histogram and other debug register
> data from ethtool -S. The removed data are not counters and they have
> very large and constantly fluctuating values that are not suitable for
> the ethtool -S decimal counter display.
> 
> The rest of the patches implement counter rollover for all hardware
> counters that are not 64-bit counters.  Different generations of
> hardware have different counter widths.  The driver will now query
> the counter widths of all counters from firmware and implement
> rollover support on all non-64-bit counters.
> 
> The last patch adds the PCIe histogram and other PCIe register data back
> using the ethtool -d interface.

I guess you missed the necessary infiniband driver updates necessary
with the firmware interface changes?