diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c
index f44affc7e08cc36dba3d71036f8fb17d78fc2ac6..20850a646e6cefb58005c0ebe2fc4de49c87c561 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ static const char i40e_driver_string[] =
 
 #define DRV_VERSION_MAJOR 2
 #define DRV_VERSION_MINOR 1
-#define DRV_VERSION_BUILD 7
+#define DRV_VERSION_BUILD 14
 #define DRV_VERSION __stringify(DRV_VERSION_MAJOR) "." \
 	     __stringify(DRV_VERSION_MINOR) "." \
 	     __stringify(DRV_VERSION_BUILD)    DRV_KERN
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c
index 2a47a6474366bf616242635e740e713fb9a3b776..29f53f032c3c375e4e1f68f4d21ea34881853ce6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c
@@ -1219,8 +1219,6 @@ void i40e_free_vfs(struct i40e_pf *pf)
 	else
 		dev_warn(&pf->pdev->dev, "VFs are assigned - not disabling SR-IOV\n");
 
-	msleep(20); /* let any messages in transit get finished up */
-
 	/* free up VF resources */
 	tmp = pf->num_alloc_vfs;
 	pf->num_alloc_vfs = 0;
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40evf_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40evf_main.c
index 5915273c372f8d7f435f897fe68650239925084d..3ea81bd0db32cdd12e499b1dc6a2d2f30b5043ce 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40evf_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40evf_main.c
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ static const char i40evf_driver_string[] =
 
 #define DRV_VERSION_MAJOR 2
 #define DRV_VERSION_MINOR 1
-#define DRV_VERSION_BUILD 7
+#define DRV_VERSION_BUILD 14
 #define DRV_VERSION __stringify(DRV_VERSION_MAJOR) "." \
 	     __stringify(DRV_VERSION_MINOR) "." \
 	     __stringify(DRV_VERSION_BUILD) \