On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 11:28 PM, Or Gerlitz <gerlitz...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 11:21 PM, Saeed Mahameed > <sae...@dev.mellanox.co.il> wrote: >> On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 7:00 PM, Ido Schimmel <ido...@mellanox.com> wrote: > >>> Also, why is this directed at net-next? > >> it is kind of new behavior, and not a bug fix. > > Saeed, > > We should be aiming to patch the driver around this issue with > something that goes all the way back through -stable to the very 1st > upstream kernel supporting mlx5 EN --- the operational link doesn't go > down when instructed by the admin and this is an entry level > requirement from Ethernet of things (such as NIC and Switch ports).
Well, this feature requires updating mlx5_ifc, which was done in earlier patch which added disable_link_up[0x1] bit, I think it is doable, but it will introduce a conflict that Dave might need to solve by not taking this bit from the patch I will send to net if we decide to do so, are you saying that i need to drop this patch and submit it to net ?
