Re: Linux kernel commit breaks IPMI on iface downing

Hi, On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 9:33 AM, Harish Patil wrote: > >>On Fri, 2015-09-04 at 09:55 +0200, Sébastien Bocahu wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Any chance this behaviour gets fixed, with either a new firmware or a >>> workaround in the kernel ? >>> >> >>As I said earlier, when we

Re: Linux kernel commit breaks IPMI on iface downing

>On Fri, 2015-09-04 at 09:55 +0200, Sébastien Bocahu wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Any chance this behaviour gets fixed, with either a new firmware or a >> workaround in the kernel ? >> > >As I said earlier, when we call bnx2_shutdown_chip(), we inform the >firmware that the driver is shutting down. The

Re: Linux kernel commit breaks IPMI on iface downing

Hi, Any chance this behaviour gets fixed, with either a new firmware or a workaround in the kernel ? thanks -- 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

Re: Linux kernel commit breaks IPMI on iface downing

On Fri, 2015-09-04 at 09:55 +0200, Sébastien Bocahu wrote: > Hi, > > Any chance this behaviour gets fixed, with either a new firmware or a > workaround in the kernel ? > As I said earlier, when we call bnx2_shutdown_chip(), we inform the firmware that the driver is shutting down. The firmware

Re: Linux kernel commit breaks IPMI on iface downing

The BNX2 firmware has already been updated to the latest version available from Dell. root@debian:~# ethtool -i eth0 | grep firmware firmware-version: 6.4.5 bc 5.2.3 NCSI 2.0.11 2015-08-14 3:30 GMT+02:00 Michael Chan mc...@broadcom.com: +netdev and Harish who is the current maintainer of bnx2

Re: Linux kernel commit breaks IPMI on iface downing

+netdev and Harish who is the current maintainer of bnx2 at qlogic. The patch in question effectively just removes the bnx2_set_power_state() call during ip link set down. If there is IPMI, the firmware should know the link needs to stay up when the driver resets the device during bnx2_close().