From: Harish Patil <harish.patil@qlogic.com>
To: "Michael Chan" <mchan@broadcom.com>,
"Sébastien Bocahu" <sbu@reportlinker.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
"Ameen Rahman" <ameen.rahman@qlogic.com>
Subject: Re: Linux kernel commit breaks IPMI on iface downing
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 01:33:16 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <D214D9E7.BFB25%harish.patil@qlogic.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1441355399.8556.15.camel@LTIRV-MCHAN1.corp.ad.broadcom.com>
>On Fri, 2015-09-04 at 09:55 +0200, Sébastien Bocahu wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Any chance this behaviour gets fixed, with either a new firmware or a
>> workaround in the kernel ?
>>
>
>As I said earlier, when we call bnx2_shutdown_chip(), we inform the
>firmware that the driver is shutting down. The firmware should know
>that there is IPMI firmware and the link needs to stay up.
>
>In the older driver, we would also call bnx2_set_power_state() which
>would send some additional messages to the firmware before putting the
>device in D3hot. May be these messages are required by the firmware to
>keep the link up. Harish, please check with your firmware team.
>Thanks.
>
>
>
>
Hi Michael/Sebastien,
ACK. Sure, I will look into it and get back.
Thanks,
Harish
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2015-08-14 1:30 ` Linux kernel commit breaks IPMI on iface downing Michael Chan
2015-08-14 9:22 ` Sébastien Bocahu
2015-09-04 7:55 ` Sébastien Bocahu
2015-09-04 8:29 ` Michael Chan
2015-09-09 1:33 ` Harish Patil [this message]
2016-08-02 7:58 ` Chen-Yu Tsai
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