Dirk says: This series provides two updates towards the link state of reprs in the flower nfp app.
Patch #1 improves the way link state is reported for reprs. Instead of starting with an assumed 'UP' state, always assume the link state is 'DOWN' and then modify this only on events received from firmware. Patch #2 adds a new nfp_app hook, repr_preclean. This callback is executed before reprs are removed from the app context and is executed per repr. Patch #3 implements the new REIFY control message, used to indicate when reprs are created and destroyed. Firmware uses these messages to prevent communication about any particular port when the driver doesn't know about the repr yet or anymore. Dirk van der Merwe (3): nfp: flower: obtain repr link state only from firmware nfp: add repr_preclean callback nfp: flower: implement the PORT_REIFY message drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/flower/cmsg.c | 46 ++++++++++ drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/flower/cmsg.h | 11 +++ drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/flower/main.c | 105 ++++++++++++++++++++-- drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/flower/main.h | 5 ++ drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_app.h | 10 +++ drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_net_repr.c | 20 ++++- 6 files changed, 189 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) -- 2.15.1