Re: [PATCH net v2 0/5] ionic: Various bugfixes

On 5/5/2026 8:57 PM, Eric Joyner wrote:
> Brett's patches mostly fix issues around communication and configuration
> between the firmware and the driver. The one that fixes the check in
> ionic_get_link_ext_stats actually makes sure the stat is reported
> correctly and is a precursor change to have that link_down_count be
> derived from the FW and not the driver. These are all fixes to issues
> that we've observed internally.
> 
> Prabu's patch is critical for enabling PTP/HW timestamping to work
> correctly when the completion queue entries are double-sized; the offset
> into the descriptor to read the HW timestamp is incorrect when in that
> mode.
> 
> ---
> v2: Drop Admin Queue fix patches from v1 pending further
> examination, and add more context to the cover letter
> 
> Brett Creeley (4):
>   ionic: Allow the first devcmd to trigger deferred probe
>   ionic: Handle failures from ionic_reset() when relevant
>   ionic: Fix unexpected dev_cmd failures
>   ionic: Fix check in ionic_get_link_ext_stats
> 
> Prabu Thayalan (1):
>   ionic: fix completion descriptor access with 2x desc size
> 
>  .../ethernet/pensando/ionic/ionic_bus_pci.c   |  8 ++++--
>  .../ethernet/pensando/ionic/ionic_ethtool.c   |  6 +++--
>  .../net/ethernet/pensando/ionic/ionic_lif.c   |  4 ++-
>  .../net/ethernet/pensando/ionic/ionic_main.c  | 12 +++++++--
>  .../net/ethernet/pensando/ionic/ionic_txrx.c  | 27 ++++++++++---------
>  5 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
> 
> 
> base-commit: e728258debd553c95d2e70f9cd97c9fde27c7130

Please drop this patchset; I'm going to submit a new one that drops
most of these changes but keeps the last one, along with the fixes to that one
suggested by Sashiko.

- Eric