[dpdk-stable] [PATCH][16.11] net/ixgbe: improve link state check on VF

[Luca Boccassi]

On Fri, 2018-02-09 at 18:14 -0500, Chas Williams wrote:
> From: Liang-Min Larry Wang <liang-min.wang at intel.com>
> 
> [ backported from upstream commit
> dc66e5fd01b9565b392833167c792cc6df9bc64c ]
> 
> In current implementation, when checking VF link state, PF state
> is checked too, although the function has a parameter to tell
> if PF state checking is needed.
> But in some scenario, user may not care about the PF state.
> This patch enables the unused parameter to only check the VF
> link state.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Liang-Min Larry Wang <liang-min.wang at intel.com>
> Acked-by: Wenzhuo Lu <wenzhuo.lu at intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c | 133
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 129 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Thanks, applied, will be pushed tomorrow.

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Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi