On Mon, 5 Aug 2019 11:54:51 -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote: > This series contains updates to i40e driver only. > > Dmitrii adds missing statistic counters for VEB and VEB TC's. > > Slawomir adds support for logging the "Disable Firmware LLDP" flag > option and its current status. > > Jake fixes an issue where VF's being notified of their link status > before their queues are enabled which was causing issues. So always > report link status down when the VF queues are not enabled. Also adds > future proofing when statistics are added or removed by adding checks to > ensure the data pointer for the strings lines up with the expected > statistics count. > > Czeslaw fixes the advertised mode reported in ethtool for FEC, where the > "None BaseR RS" was always being displayed no matter what the mode it > was in. Also added logging information when the PF is entering or > leaving "allmulti" (or promiscuous) mode. Fixed up the logging logic > for VF's when leaving multicast mode to not include unicast as well.
I can understand patch 2 may be useful for troubleshooting since FW agent is involved. But I can't really say the same for patch 6 :S If those entered allmutli/left allmutli messages were of value core should print them instead.. But anyway, that's not a big deal, looks reasonable.
