[Intel-wired-lan] [next PATCH S21 07/14] i40e: propagate properly

Jeff Kirsher jeffrey.t.kirsher at intel.com
Sun Nov 8 12:46:26 UTC 2015


On Fri, 2015-11-06 at 15:26 -0800, Joshua Hay wrote:
> From: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams at intel.com>
> 
> i40e_sync_vsi_filters() is the surly teenager of this driver. It says
> it's going to report errors, but it doesn't actually do that most of
> the
> time. And when it does, it leaves a mess.
> 
> Change this function to have a common exit point so it will properly
> release the busy lock on the VSI. Propagate errors to the callers.
> Finally, adjust a few callers to check for and deal with errors from
> this function.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams at intel.com>
> Change-ID: Ic6af4956491e72402ebb3c538a3c31a0ad7f8667
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c        | 109
> +++++++++++++--------
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c |  14 +--
>  2 files changed, 75 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-)

This does not apply cleanly, so I am not applying this patch (or the
remaining patches in the series).  Please send me an update to this
patch, which applies cleanly to me next-queue tree (dev-queue branch).
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