netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/4] ionic: catch transition back to RUNNING with fw

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Date:   Thu, 17 Feb 2022 20:12:13 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Shannon Nelson <snelson@...sando.io>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, drivers@...sando.io
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/4] ionic: catch transition back to RUNNING
 with fw_generation 0

On Thu, 17 Feb 2022 14:02:49 -0800 Shannon Nelson wrote:
> In some graceful updates that get initially triggered by the
> RESET event, especially with older firmware, the fw_generation
> bits don't change but the fw_status is seen to go to 0 then back
> to 1.  However, the driver didn't perform the restart, remained
> waiting for fw_generation to change, and got left in limbo.
> 
> This is because the clearing of idev->fw_status_ready to 0
> didn't happen correctly as it was buried in the transition
> trigger: since the transition down was triggered not here
> but in the RESET event handler, the clear to 0 didn't happen,
> so the transition back to 1 wasn't detected.
> 
> Fix this particular case by bringing the setting of
> idev->fw_status_ready back out to where it was before.
> 
> Fixes: 398d1e37f960 ("ionic: add FW_STOPPING state")
> Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <snelson@...sando.io>

This looks like a fix, and should go separately to net.
Is there a reason behind posting together? The other patches
don't even depend on this one.