i40evf: resend FW request if no response
authorMitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com>
Wed, 4 Jun 2014 04:22:41 +0000 (04:22 +0000)
committerJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Thu, 26 Jun 2014 11:44:59 +0000 (04:44 -0700)
Sometimes the firmware will not indicate an error but fail to pass a
message between the VF and the PF driver. If this happens, just resend
the request.

This fixes an initialization failure if many VFs are instantiated at the
same time and the VF module is autoloaded.

Change-ID: Idd1ad8da2fd5137859244685c355941427d317d7
Signed-off-by: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40evf_main.c