Comment 1 for bug 921793

Applied these upstream cherry picks (except for the 2 that are VLAN related and commented out):

68aad78c5023b8aa82da99b47f9d8cf40e8ca453 sweep the floors and convert some .get_drvinfo routines to strlcpy
30128031d71741ef7d0e32c345e3bf02aa8a0704 be2net: init (vf)_if_handle/vf_pmac_id to handle failure scenarios
72f02485626b3e71955e54d227ede1b54021d571 be2net: stop checking the UE registers after an EEH error
434b3648e9a58600cea5f3a1a0a7a89048e4df61 be2net: don't log more than one error on detecting EEH/UE errors
6589ade019dcab245d3bb847370f855b56cdf6ad be2net: stop issuing FW cmds if any cmd times out
293c4a7d9b95d0beeb5df03c14bd35bc21f9e6f2 be2net: Fix TX queue create for Lancer
de49bd5a447887fa630c54bb2769102d50fbe40a be2net: add register dump feature for Lancer
af5875bdfed02a10a0c76bbd547753fea7979244 be2net: Add EEPROM dump feature for Lancer
5d5adb93d0efca8b47cc3e649a41ba650ff3d270 be2net: Fix VLAN promiscous mode for Lancer
daad6167d97b43cfc448cfe698784730b53ed3d6 be2net: Use V1 query link status command for lancer
590c391dd362479b27a67c8d797ce348c5798b93 be2net: Move to new SR-IOV implementation in Lancer
3bb62f4f95ba004048bafb460179b5db33aff787 be2net: Fix error recovery paths
d8110f62c020ebc49108de57510a1482bfcbe86a be2net: Add error handling for Lancer
65f8584e253f4676c8b39e976a10e918ec984b7c be2net: Use new hash key
e9008ee99c77207b2f6aee67e5f849b1e1400a11 be2net: Fix non utilization of RX queues
6626873980475f303367f7b709f4703b571cf854 be2net: netpoll support
#8e586137e6b63af1e881b328466ab5ffbe562510 net: make vlan ndo_vlan_rx_[add/kill]_vid return error value
02fe7027961969a052fbbe453304f329d4e9735a be2net: update some counters to display via ethtool
1ded132d4c3442aa3a619c94c245d7b5e0eb9731 be2net: workaround to fix a bug in BE
110b82bc6265a48c1a0bf198109bed325ed055e2 be2net: fix ethtool ringparam reporting
11ac75ed1eb9d8f5ff067fa9a82ebf5075989281 be2net: refactor/cleanup vf configuration code
ecedb6ae908e3a8a19942da921a3ffb1c5a0d6ab be2net: Add support for Skyhawk cards
93c86700c0ae3a1407b979073f423e62e29372c1 be2net: Fix INTx processing for Lancer
#80817cbf5ac13da76f3ee2b9259f26c09b385e84 be2net: fix be_vlan_add/rem_vid
94f434c2055db5fe20f10d4e0ec50ab395e1f62b be2net: fix range check for set_qos for a VF
b236916a68d923acff15787b5439d7d684c17ae5 be2net: query link status in be_open()
e5686ad82ca2aeed7a8f24ffca115c0b7478dec9 netdev: make net_device_ops const
df505eb804d5221c3164ebecd1286cb7fc7f49ba be2net: create RSS rings even in multi-channel configs
786f528119722f564a22ad953411374e06116333 ethtool: Null-terminate filename passed to ethtool_ops::flash_device