From: Wei Yang <weiyang@linux•vnet.ibm.com>
To: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox•com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>,
weiyang@linux•vnet.ibm.com, yevgenyp@mellanox•com,
amirv@mellanox•com, bhelgaas@google•com,
linux-pci@vger•kernel.org, netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch net-next] net/mlx4_core: match pci_device_id including dynids
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 15:45:16 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140408074516.GB12126@richard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53439BBE.4070708@mellanox.com>
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 09:48:30AM +0300, Or Gerlitz wrote:
>On 07/04/2014 21:43, David Miller wrote:
>>From: Wei Yang <weiyang@linux•vnet.ibm.com>
>>Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 10:07:30 +0800
>>
>>>Fix issue introduced by commit: 97a5221 "net/mlx4_core: pass
>>>pci_device_id.driver_data to __mlx4_init_one during reset".
>>>
>>>pci_match_id() just match the static pci_device_id, which may return NULL if
>>>someone binds the driver to a device manually using
>>>/sys/bus/pci/drivers/.../new_id.
>>>
>>>This patch wrap up a helper function __mlx4_remove_one() which does the tear
>>>down function but preserve the drv_data. Functions like
>>>mlx4_pci_err_detected() and mlx4_restart_one() will call this one with out
>>>releasing drvdata.
>>>
>>>Tested on ConnectX-3.
>>>
>>>CC: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google•com>
>>>CC: Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox•com>
>>>Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <weiyang@linux•vnet.ibm.com>
>>Please resubmit this when the net-next tree opens back up, thanks.
>
>Dave, this patch is for net, since it fixes an issue in the current
>code (actually it relates to a patch
>that was merged after 3.14-rc7, so it would eventually might go to
>-stable too). The author wasn't very
>familiar with the exact differences/nature of net vs. net-next, so it
>might created some confusion here, I'v
>sent him few private notes to explain how things go...
Yes, sorry for the confusion. Thanks Or for your patient explanation, while I
still make mistakes.
>
>Or.
--
Richard Yang
Help you, Help me
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-08 7:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-06 2:07 [Patch net-next] net/mlx4_core: match pci_device_id including dynids Wei Yang
2014-04-07 18:43 ` David Miller
2014-04-08 6:48 ` Or Gerlitz
2014-04-08 7:45 ` Wei Yang [this message]
2014-04-08 16:25 ` David Miller
2014-04-08 16:51 ` Or Gerlitz
2014-04-08 6:52 ` Or Gerlitz
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