RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Patch net-next v3] net: mana: Handle hardware recovery events when probing the device

[Long Li]

> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Patch net-next v3] net: mana: Handle hardware
> recovery events when probing the device
> 
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2025 at 03:07:13PM -0800, longli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:
> > From: Long Li <longli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > When MANA is being probed, it's possible that hardware is in recovery
> > mode and the device may get GDMA_EQE_HWC_RESET_REQUEST over HWC
> in the
> > middle of the probe. Detect such condition and go through the recovery
> > service procedure.
> >
> > Fixes: fbe346ce9d62 ("net: mana: Handle Reset Request from MANA NIC")
> 
> If this is a fix, should it be targeted at net rather than net-next?
> 
> Alternatively, if it is not a fix for net, then I suggest dropping the Fixes tag and
> adding something about commit fbe346ce9d62 ("net: mana:
> Handle Reset Request from MANA NIC") to the patch description, above the
> tags (with a blank line in between).

Can we keep the "Fixes" tag and queue the patch to net-next?

There are other MANA patches pending in net-next and they will conflict with each other when merging.

Thank you,
Long

> 
> > Signed-off-by: Long Li <longli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > Changes
> > v2: Use a list for handling multiple devices.
> >     Use disable_delayed_work_sync() on driver exit.
> >     Replace atomic_t with flags to detect if interrupt happens before
> > probe finishes
> >
> > v3: Rebase to latest net-next. Change list_for_each_entry_safe() to
> while(!list_empty()).
> 
> Code changes look good to me.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxx>