From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: sarveshwar.bandi@emulex.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2] be2net: Clear any capability flags that driver is not interested in.
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 01:22:31 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130815.012231.2044765464344269286.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <07165eb6-9b8f-45b4-bec6-bb53f0e1aa52@CMEXHTCAS2.ad.emulex.com>
From: <sarveshwar.bandi@emulex.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 13:21:47 +0530
> From: Sarveshwar Bandi <sarveshwar.bandi@emulex.com>
>
> It is possible for some versions of firmware to advertise capabilities that driver
> is not ready to handle. This may lead to controller stall. Since the driver is
> interested only in subset of flags, clearing the rest.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sarveshwar Bandi <sarveshwar.bandi@emulex.com>
Applied, thanks.
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2013-08-14 7:51 [PATCH net v2] be2net: Clear any capability flags that driver is not interested in sarveshwar.bandi
2013-08-15 8:22 ` David Miller [this message]
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