From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Campbell Subject: Re: [PATCH net v6 1/1] xen-netback: Handle backend state transitions in a more robust way Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 14:07:33 +0100 Message-ID: <1380200853.29483.83.camel@kazak.uk.xensource.com> References: <1380193792-9751-1-git-send-email-paul.durrant@citrix.com> <1380193792-9751-2-git-send-email-paul.durrant@citrix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: , , Wei Liu , David Vrabel To: Paul Durrant Return-path: Received: from smtp.citrix.com ([66.165.176.89]:1167 "EHLO SMTP.CITRIX.COM" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757071Ab3IZNHg (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Sep 2013 09:07:36 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1380193792-9751-2-git-send-email-paul.durrant@citrix.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 2013-09-26 at 12:09 +0100, Paul Durrant wrote: > When the frontend state changes netback now specifies its desired state to > a new function, set_backend_state(), which transitions through any > necessary intermediate states. > This fixes an issue observed with some old Windows frontend drivers where > they failed to transition through the Closing state and netback would not > behave correctly. > > Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant Acked-by: Ian Campbell