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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] sfc: disable RSS when unsupported
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 14:22:25 -0400 (EDT)
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From: Bert Kenward <bkenward@solarflare.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 16:51:00 +0100

> From: Jon Cooper <jcooper@solarflare.com>
> 
> When certain firmware variants are selected (via the sfboot utility) the
> SFC7000 and SFC8000 series NICs don't support RSS. The driver still
> tries (and fails) to insert filters with the RSS flag, and the NIC fails
> to pass traffic.
> 
> When the firmware reports RSS_LIMITED suppress allocating a default RSS
> context. The absence of an RSS context is picked up in filter insertion
> and RSS flags are discarded.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bert Kenward <bkenward@solarflare.com>

Applied.