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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] netvsc: chimney buffer size error
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Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2018 08:38:40 -0700
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On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 15:45:17 +0100
Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com> wrote:

> On 8/9/2018 6:50 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > Fix the error handling in setting up transmit buffer.
> > If setting up chimney buffer fails, then it is not connected so
> > no need to send disconnect.
> > 
> > Allow for some unused area if full area is not used.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>  
> 
> subsytem is net/netvsc, so title should be:
> net/netvsc: fix chimney buffer size error handling
> 
> Fixes: 4e9c73e96e83 ("net/netvsc: add Hyper-V network device")
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> 
> Assuming you want patch to be backported.
> 
> I will update as above while merging.

There is not a high urgency to back port this. If chimney buffer setup
fails the driver is unusable anyway. It is more of a theoretical error condition.