be2net: receive asynchronous link status notifications from BE

Rcv and process ansync link status notifications from BE instead of polling
 for link status in the be_worker thread.

Signed-off-by: Sathya Perla <sathyap@serverengines.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/benet/be.h b/drivers/net/benet/be.h
index 94b75cb072f7..f703758f0a6e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/benet/be.h
+++ b/drivers/net/benet/be.h
@@ -163,6 +163,10 @@ struct be_ctrl_info {
         struct be_mcc_obj mcc_obj;
         spinlock_t mcc_lock;    /* For serializing mcc cmds to BE card */
         spinlock_t mcc_cq_lock;
+
+        /* MCC Async callback */
+        void (*async_cb)(void *adapter, bool link_up);
+        void *adapter_ctxt;
 };
 
 #include "be_cmds.h"
@@ -272,7 +276,7 @@ struct be_adapter {
         u32 if_handle;          /* Used to configure filtering */
         u32 pmac_id;            /* MAC addr handle used by BE card */
 
-        struct be_link_info link;
+        bool link_up;
         u32 port_num;
         bool promiscuous;
 };