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    SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH] e1000e: Remove Other from EIAC.
    On 2018/01/18 15:50, Benjamin Poirier wrote:
    > It was reported that emulated e1000e devices in vmware esxi 6.5 Build
    > 7526125 do not link up after commit 4aea7a5c5e94 ("e1000e: Avoid receiver
    > overrun interrupt bursts", v4.15-rc1). Some tracing shows that after
    > e1000e_trigger_lsc() is called, ICR reads out as 0x0 in e1000_msix_other()
    > on emulated e1000e devices. In comparison, on real e1000e 82574 hardware,
    > icr=0x80000004 (_INT_ASSERTED | _OTHER) in the same situation.
    (_INT_ASSERTED | _LSC)

    >
    > Some experimentation showed that this flaw in vmware e1000e emulation can
    > be worked around by not setting Other in EIAC. This is how it was before
    > 16ecba59bc33 ("e1000e: Do not read ICR in Other interrupt", v4.5-rc1).
    >
    > Fixes: 4aea7a5c5e94 ("e1000e: Avoid receiver overrun interrupt bursts")
    > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@suse.com>

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