Re: [PATCH v6 0/5] PCI: Improve PCIe link status reporting

[Bjorn Helgaas]

On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 03:00:07PM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> This is based on Tal's recent work to unify the approach for reporting PCIe
> link speed/width and whether the device is being limited by a slower
> upstream link.
> 
> The new pcie_print_link_status() interface appeared in v4.17-rc1; see
> 9e506a7b5147 ("PCI: Add pcie_print_link_status() to log link speed and
> whether it's limited").
> 
> That's a good way to replace use of pcie_get_minimum_link(), which gives
> misleading results when a path contains both a fast, narrow link and a
> slow, wide link: it reports the equivalent of a slow, narrow link.
> 
> This series removes the remaining uses of pcie_get_minimum_link() and then
> removes the interface itself.  I'd like to merge them all through the PCI
> tree to make the removal easy.
> 
> This does change the dmesg reporting of link speeds, and in the ixgbe case,
> it changes the reporting from KERN_WARN level to KERN_INFO.  If that's an
> issue, let's talk about it.  I'm hoping the reduce code size, improved
> functionality, and consistency across drivers is enough to make this
> worthwhile.
> 
> ---
> 
> Bjorn Helgaas (5):
>       bnx2x: Report PCIe link properties with pcie_print_link_status()
>       bnxt_en: Report PCIe link properties with pcie_print_link_status()
>       cxgb4: Report PCIe link properties with pcie_print_link_status()
>       ixgbe: Report PCIe link properties with pcie_print_link_status()
>       PCI: Remove unused pcie_get_minimum_link()

Jeff has acked the ixgbe patch.

Any comments on the bnx2x, bnxt_en, or cxgb4 patches?

>  drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_main.c |   23 ++-----
>  drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c        |   19 ------
>  drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_main.c  |   75 ----------------------
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c    |   47 --------------
>  drivers/pci/pci.c                                |   43 -------------
>  include/linux/pci.h                              |    2 -
>  6 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 200 deletions(-)