Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net-next.git (master)
by David S. Miller [off-list ref]:

On Fri, 25 Feb 2022 09:16:18 -0800 you wrote:

Make sure we don't try to transition the fw_status_ready
while we're still in the FW_STOPPING state, else we can
get stuck in limbo waiting on a transition that already
happened.

While we're here we can remove a superfluous check on
the lif pointer.

[...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [net-next] ionic: no transition while stopping
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/688a5efe0ced

You are awesome, thank you!
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