Merge branch 'sfc-next'
Edward Cree says: ==================== sfc: add MCDI tracing This patchset adds support for logging MCDI (Management-Controller-to- Driver Interface) interactions between the sfc driver and a bound device, to aid in debugging. Solarflare has a tool to decode the resulting traces and will look to open-source this if there is any external interest, but the protocol is already detailed in drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/mcdi_pcol.h. The logging buffer we allocate per MCDI context is a work area for constructing each individual message before logging it with netif_info. The reason the buffer is long-lived is simply to avoid the overhead of allocating and freeing it every MCDI call, since MCDIs are already known to be serialised for other reasons. -- v4: remove patch #4, which has already been applied via sshah v3: add some explanations to cover letter and patch #4 v2: avoid long lines in cover letter; fix multiline comment style ==================== Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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