[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/e1000: always enable receive and transmit

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 7/17/2017 8:18 PM, Charles (Chas) Williams wrote:
> The transmit and receive controller state machines are only enabled after
> receiving an interrupt and the link status is now valid.  If an adapter
> is being used in conjuction with NC-SI, network controller sideband
> interface, the adapter may never get a link state change interrupt since
> the adapter's PHY is always link up and never changes state.
> 
> To fix this, always enable and disable the transmit and receive with
> .dev_start and .dev_stop.  This is a better match for what is typically
> done with the other PMD's.  Since we may never get an interrupt to check
> the link state, we also poll once at the end of .dev_start to get the
> current link status.

Hi Charles,

Is this patch target 17.08-rc2?
Since this is not a fix, can this be postponed to 17.11?

> 
> Signed-off-by: Chas Williams <ciwillia at brocade.com>

<...>