From: Paweł Jabłoński <pawel.jablon...@intel.com> This patch adds a warning message when the link-down-on-close flag is setting on. The warning is printed only on MFP devices
Signed-off-by: Paweł Jabłoński <pawel.jablon...@intel.com> Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bow...@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirs...@intel.com> --- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ethtool.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ethtool.c index 0fb60336e64b..5ca63c5d36b4 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ethtool.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ethtool.c @@ -4479,6 +4479,12 @@ static int i40e_set_priv_flags(struct net_device *dev, u32 flags) } } + if ((changed_flags & pf->flags & + I40E_FLAG_LINK_DOWN_ON_CLOSE_ENABLED) && + (pf->flags & I40E_FLAG_MFP_ENABLED)) + dev_warn(&pf->pdev->dev, + "Turning on link-down-on-close flag may affect other partitions\n"); + if (changed_flags & I40E_FLAG_DISABLE_FW_LLDP) { if (pf->flags & I40E_FLAG_DISABLE_FW_LLDP) { struct i40e_dcbx_config *dcbcfg; -- 2.14.3