netdev - Re: [PATCH net 4/4] i40e: Revert "i40e: don't report link up for a VF who hasn't enabled queues"

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Date:   Fri, 29 Jan 2021 15:23:20 -0500
From:   Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>
To:     Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@...el.com>,
        Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        sassmann@...hat.com,
        Arkadiusz Kubalewski <arkadiusz.kubalewski@...el.com>,
        Konrad Jankowski <konrad0.jankowski@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 4/4] i40e: Revert "i40e: don't report link up for a VF
 who hasn't enabled queues"

On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 4:45 PM Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com> wrote:
>
> From: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@...el.com>
>
> This reverts commit 2ad1274fa35ace5c6360762ba48d33b63da2396c
>
> VF queues were not brought up when PF was brought up after being
> downed if the VF driver disabled VFs queues during PF down.
> This could happen in some older or external VF driver implementations.
> The problem was that PF driver used vf->queues_enabled as a condition
> to decide what link-state it would send out which caused the issue.
>
> Remove the check for vf->queues_enabled in the VF link notify.
> Now VF will always be notified of the current link status.
> Also remove the queues_enabled member from i40e_vf structure as it is
> not used anymore. Otherwise VNF implementation was broken and caused
> a link flap.
>
> Fixes: 2ad1274fa35a ("i40e: don't report link up for a VF who hasn't enabled")
> Signed-off-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Arkadiusz Kubalewski <arkadiusz.kubalewski@...el.com>
> Tested-by: Konrad Jankowski <konrad0.jankowski@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>

Doesn't this reintroduce the bug that the original patch aimed to solve?

Commit 2ad1274fa35a itself was also a fix.