[PATCH v3 4.7 0/8] NCSI Improvement and Fixes

[Gavin Shan]

The changes included in this series has been merged to linux.net
("next" branch). It's expected to be upstream shortly.

Joel, It's applied to 4.7 branch only. I will backport some of
the fixes to 4.4 and post them together with some fixes specific
to 4.4 later.

Gavin Shan (8):
  net/ncsi: Avoid unused-value build warning from ia64-linux-gcc
  net/ncsi: Introduce NCSI_RESERVED_CHANNEL
  net/ncsi: Don't probe on the reserved channel ID (0x1f)
  net/ncsi: Rework request index allocation
  net/ncsi: Allow to extend NCSI request properties
  net/ncsi: Rework the channel monitoring
  net/ncsi: Introduce ncsi_stop_dev()
  net/faraday: Stop NCSI device on shutdown

 drivers/net/ethernet/faraday/ftgmac100.c |   2 +
 include/net/ncsi.h                       |   5 +
 net/ncsi/internal.h                      |  22 +++-
 net/ncsi/ncsi-aen.c                      |  37 ++++--
 net/ncsi/ncsi-cmd.c                      |   2 +-
 net/ncsi/ncsi-manage.c                   | 198 ++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 net/ncsi/ncsi-rsp.c                      |   4 +-
 7 files changed, 180 insertions(+), 90 deletions(-)

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