From: Yuval Mintz <yuval.mi...@qlogic.com> Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 08:09:49 +0300
> In a kdump environment interfaces might be re-loaded without a proper > unload sequence in the previous running kernel. > bnx2x management FW and driver maintains a `pulse' that notifies the FW > that the driver is still up and running. > > Driver load on the kdump kernel should be performed only after the pulse > has been out-of-sync long enough for the management FW to identify that > the driver has crashed, on which point it will perform some necessary > cleanup of the HW. > > In today's distros kdump loading is quite fast, sometimes too fast for our > FW to get out-of-sync. This patch delays the bnx2x's probe during kdump > to allow a proper re-load on the kdump kernel. > > Signed-off-by: Yuval Mintz <yuval.mi...@qlogic.com> Applied. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
