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Jeff Kirsher says: ==================== 10GbE Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates 2018-05-17 This series contains updates to ixgbe, ixgbevf and ice drivers. Cathy Zhou resolves sparse warnings by using the force attribute. Mauro S M Rodrigues fixes a bug where IRQs were not freed if a PCI error recovery system opts to remove the device which causes ixgbe_io_error_detected() to return PCI_ERS_RESULT_DISCONNECT before calling ixgbe_close_suspend() which results in IRQs not freed and crashing when the remove handler calls pci_disable_device(). Resolved this by calling ixgbe_close_suspend() before evaluating the PCI channel state. Pavel Tatashin releases the rtnl_lock during the call to ixgbe_close_suspend() to allow scaling if device_shutdown() is multi-threaded. Emil modifies ixgbe to not validate the MAC address during a reset, unless the MAC was set on the host so that the VF will get a new MAC address every time it reloads. Also updates ixgbevf to set hw->mac.perm_addr in order to retain the custom MAC on a reset. Anirudh updates the ice NVM read/erase/update AQ commands to align with the latest specification. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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