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SubjectRe: [PATCH v6 0/5] PCI: Improve PCIe link status reporting
On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 03:00:07PM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> This is based on Tal's recent work to unify the approach for reporting PCIe
> link speed/width and whether the device is being limited by a slower
> upstream link.
>
> The new pcie_print_link_status() interface appeared in v4.17-rc1; see
> 9e506a7b5147 ("PCI: Add pcie_print_link_status() to log link speed and
> whether it's limited").
>
> That's a good way to replace use of pcie_get_minimum_link(), which gives
> misleading results when a path contains both a fast, narrow link and a
> slow, wide link: it reports the equivalent of a slow, narrow link.
>
> This series removes the remaining uses of pcie_get_minimum_link() and then
> removes the interface itself. I'd like to merge them all through the PCI
> tree to make the removal easy.
>
> This does change the dmesg reporting of link speeds, and in the ixgbe case,
> it changes the reporting from KERN_WARN level to KERN_INFO. If that's an
> issue, let's talk about it. I'm hoping the reduce code size, improved
> functionality, and consistency across drivers is enough to make this
> worthwhile.
>
> ---
>
> Bjorn Helgaas (5):
> bnx2x: Report PCIe link properties with pcie_print_link_status()
> bnxt_en: Report PCIe link properties with pcie_print_link_status()
> cxgb4: Report PCIe link properties with pcie_print_link_status()
> ixgbe: Report PCIe link properties with pcie_print_link_status()
> PCI: Remove unused pcie_get_minimum_link()

Jeff has acked the ixgbe patch.

Any comments on the bnx2x, bnxt_en, or cxgb4 patches?

> drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x_main.c | 23 ++-----
> drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c | 19 ------
> drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_main.c | 75 ----------------------
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c | 47 --------------
> drivers/pci/pci.c | 43 -------------
> include/linux/pci.h | 2 -
> 6 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 200 deletions(-)

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