On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 15:45:17 +0100
Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yi...@intel.com> wrote:
> On 8/9/2018 6:50 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > Fix the error handling in setting up transmit buffer.
> > If setting up chimney buffer fails, then it is not connected so
> > no need to send disconnect.
> >
> > Allow for some unused area if full area is not used.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthem...@microsoft.com>
>
> subsytem is net/netvsc, so title should be:
> net/netvsc: fix chimney buffer size error handling
>
> Fixes: 4e9c73e96e83 ("net/netvsc: add Hyper-V network device")
> Cc: sta...@dpdk.org
>
> Assuming you want patch to be backported.
>
> I will update as above while merging.
There is not a high urgency to back port this. If chimney buffer setup
fails the driver is unusable anyway. It is more of a theoretical error
condition.
