>-----Original Message----- >From: Alexander Duyck [mailto:alexander.du...@gmail.com] >Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2015 11:55 AM >To: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >Subject: [E1000-devel] out-of-tree ixgbevf driver failing to load when used >on host > >So I have gotten a few reports about the out-of-tree ixgbevf driver >failing to load on the host in an SR-IOV enabled environment. The same >test works without any issues with the in-kernel driver. > >On investigation it looks like the out-of-tree driver never back-ported >the changes introduced in >https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/davem/net- >next.git/commit/?id=1a0d6ae5795c. >Specifically the "Small fix for ixgbevf_probe" that was included to the >patch resolves this issue by simply deferring the reset until a later >time. Without this change the ixgbevf_probe call fails and as a result >the driver fails to load in the case where the PF is down when SR-IOV is >enabled.
The issue is in ixgbevf_sw_init() where we return an error code due to reset_hw() failing (PF is down). We have already fixed this internally and it will be in the next release. Thanks, Emil ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Go from Idea to Many App Stores Faster with Intel(R) XDK Give your users amazing mobile app experiences with Intel(R) XDK. Use one codebase in this all-in-one HTML5 development environment. Design, debug & build mobile apps & 2D/3D high-impact games for multiple OSs. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=254741551&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list E1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel To learn more about Intel® Ethernet, visit http://communities.intel.com/community/wired
