When qeth device is queried for ethtool data, hardware operation
is performed to extract the necessary information from the card.
If the card is not online at the moment (e.g. it is undergoing
recovery), this operation produces undesired effects like
temporarily freezing the system. This patch prevents execution
of the hardware query operation when the card is not online.
In such case, ioctl() operation returns error with errno ENODEV.
Reviewed-by: Ursula Braun <ursula.braun@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eugene Crosser <Eugene.Crosser@ru.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frank Blaschka <blaschka@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Introduce functions to enable and disable bridgeport address
notification feature, sysfs attributes for access to these
functions from userspace, and udev events emitted when a host
joins or exits a bridgeport-enabled HiperSocket channel.
Signed-off-by: Eugene Crosser <eugene.crosser@ru.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frank Blaschka <frank.blaschka@de.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ursula Braun <ursula.braun@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Introduce functions to assign roles and check state of bridgeport-capable
HiperSocket devices, and sysfs attributes providing access to these
functions from userspace. Introduce udev events emitted when the state
of a bridgeport device changes.
Signed-off-by: Eugene Crosser <eugene.crosser@ru.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frank Blaschka <frank.blaschka@de.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ursula Braun <ursula.braun@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
