From: Frank Blaschka <blaschka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 08:20:17 +0200 > From: Eugene Crosser <Eugene.Crosser@xxxxxxxxxx> > > When qeth device is queried for ethtool data, hardware operation > is performed to extract the necessary information from the card. > If the card is not online at the moment (e.g. it is undergoing > recovery), this operation produces undesired effects like > temporarily freezing the system. This patch prevents execution > of the hardware query operation when the card is not online. > In such case, ioctl() operation returns error with errno ENODEV. > > Reviewed-by: Ursula Braun <ursula.braun@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Eugene Crosser <Eugene.Crosser@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Frank Blaschka <blaschka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Applied. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-s390" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
