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From: "Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/ixgbe: stop link setup alarm handler
 before device start
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2018 11:16:14 +0000
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On 08-Nov-18 10:24 AM, Ilya Maximets wrote:
> We should stop alarm handler before resetting the HW to
> avoid concurrent device reconfiguration.
> 
> Fixes: 0408f47ba4d6 ("net/ixgbe: fix busy polling while fiber link update")
> CC: stable@dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@samsung.com>
> ---

Tested-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>

I can confirm that this fixes issue with pktgen where init was failing 
if the link wasn't up.

-- 
Thanks,
Anatoly