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SubjectRe: [PATCH] net/cxgb4: use remove handler as shutdown handler
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From: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 17:04:52 -0300

> Without a shutdown handler, T4 cards behave very badly after a kexec.
> Some firmware calls return errors indicating allocation failures, for
> example. This is probably because thouse resources were not released by
> a BYE message to the firmware, for example.
>
> Using the remove handler guarantees we will use a well tested path.
>
> With this patch I applied, I managed to use kexec multiple times and
> probe and iSCSI login worked every time.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Applied.


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