>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 should know >that there is IPMI firmware and the link needs to stay up. > >In the older driver, we would also call bnx2_set_power_state() which >would send some additional messages to the firmware before putting the >device in D3hot. May be these messages are required by the firmware to >keep the link up. Harish, please check with your firmware team. >Thanks. > > > >
Hi Michael/Sebastien, ACK. Sure, I will look into it and get back. Thanks, Harish
