netdev - Re: [PATCH net 02/15] ibmvnic: process HMC disable command

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Date:   Sat, 21 Nov 2020 15:38:26 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Lijun Pan <ljp@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, sukadev@...ux.ibm.com, drt@...ux.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 02/15] ibmvnic: process HMC disable command

On Sat, 21 Nov 2020 15:36:37 -0800 Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 16:40:36 -0600 Lijun Pan wrote:
> > From: Dany Madden <drt@...ux.ibm.com>
> > 
> > Currently ibmvnic does not support the disable vnic command from the
> > Hardware Management Console. This patch enables ibmvnic to process
> > CRQ message 0x07, disable vnic adapter.  
> 
> What user-visible problem does this one solve?

Re-reading the commit message - is Hardware Management Console operated
by a human? So this is basically adding a missing feature, not fixes a
bug? Unless not being able to disable vnic is causing other things to
break.