APPLIED/cmt: [SRU][F/Oracle][PATCH 1/3] Fix bnxt driver statistics

Khaled Elmously khalid.elmously at canonical.com
Mon Aug 24 04:57:18 UTC 2020


Applied, and changed the buglink to https (thanks Kelsey)



On 2020-08-20 12:57:45 , Khalid Elmously wrote:
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1892397
> 
> In some situations the bnxt NetXtreme driver misreports network traffic statistics
> 
> 4 fixes have been recommended by Broadcom to resolve this issue. The first ( b8056e8434b037fdab08158fea99ed7bc8ef3a74 bnxt_en: Fix accumulation of bp->net_stats_prev ) is already present via 5.4.44 linux-stable. This is nomination is for the 3 remaining patches.
> 
> These changes have been tested and OK'd by Oracle.
> 
> Michael Chan (3):
>   bnxt_en: Store the running firmware version code.
>   bnxt_en: Do not enable legacy TX push on older firmware.
>   bnxt_en: Fix statistics counters issue during ifdown with older
>     firmware.
> 
>  drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c | 10 +++++++++-
>  drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.h |  1 +
>  3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.17.1
> 



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