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Introduce an "active" state for a IBM vNIC Command-Response Queue. A CRQ is considered active once it has initialized or linked with its partner by sending an initialization request and getting a successful response back from the management partition. Until this has happened, do not allow CRQ commands to be sent other than the initialization request. This change will avoid a protocol error in case of a device transport event occurring during a initialization. When the driver receives a transport event notification indicating that the backing hardware has changed and needs reinitialization, any further commands other than the initialization handshake with the VIOS management partition will result in an invalid state error. Instead of sending a command that will be returned with an error, print a warning and return an error that will be handled by the caller. Signed-off-by: Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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