[PATCH v2 4/5] net: thunderx: Switchon carrier only upon interface link up

David Miller davem at davemloft.net
Wed Dec 2 12:56:15 PST 2015


From: Pavel Fedin <p.fedin at samsung.com>
Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2015 14:30:37 +0300

>  Hello again!
> 
>> Subject: RE: [PATCH v2 4/5] net: thunderx: Switchon carrier only upon interface link up
>> 
>>  Just a reminder, we have issue with this one too, which is not addressed yet.
> 
>  I have examined the problem thoroughly and discovered that it is a problem with experimental BGX driver patches on my 4.2 host
> kernel build. It fails to send NIC_MBOX_MSG_BGX_LINK_CHANGE, so nothing works.
>  I have retested this series on top of 4.3 running on ThunderX. It has good BGX driver and everything works fine. Therefore, the
> whole series can be safely applied and...
> 
>  Tested-by: Pavel Fedin <p.fedin at samsung.com>

Ok, thanks for confirming things are fine now.

I'll apply this series.



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