[Intel-wired-lan] [net-next S3 04/13] i40e: notify VFs of link state

[Young, James M]

-----Original Message-----
From: Kirsher, Jeffrey T 
Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2015 4:54 PM
To: Sullivan, Catherine; Young, James M
Cc: intel-wired-lan at lists.osuosl.org
Subject: Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [net-next S3 04/13] i40e: notify VFs of link state

On Tue, 2015-04-07 at 19:45 -0400, Catherine Sullivan wrote:
> From: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams at intel.com>
> 
> Gratuitously notify VFs of link state when they activate their queues.
> In general, this is the last thing that a VF driver will do as it 
> opens its interface, so this is a good time to notify the VF.
> 
> Currently, VF devices assume link is up unless told otherwise, which 
> means that VFs instantiated on a PF with no link will report the wrong 
> state. This change corrects that issue.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams at intel.com>
> Change-ID: Iea53622904ecc681ac3f8938d81c30033ef9a0a6
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c | 50
> ++++++++++++++--------
>  1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

Thanks Catherine, I have added your patch to my queue.
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Tested-by: Jim Young <james.m.young at intel.com>