Hi Sam, Sure, I will generate v3 after Vijay's patch is approved.
Thanks, Justin > On Fri, 2018-09-28 at 18:15 +0000, justin.l...@dell.com wrote: > > The new command (NCSI_CMD_SEND_CMD) is added to allow user space > > application > > to send NC-SI command to the network card. > > Also, add a new attribute (NCSI_ATTR_DATA) for transferring request and > > response. > > > > The work flow is as below. > > > > Request: > > User space application -> Netlink interface (msg) > > -> new Netlink handler - > > ncsi_send_cmd_nl() > > -> ncsi_xmit_cmd() > > Response: > > Response received - ncsi_rcv_rsp() -> internal response handler - > > ncsi_rsp_handler_xxx() > > -> > > ncsi_rsp_handler_netlink() > > -> > > ncsi_send_netlink_rsp () > > -> > > Netlink interface (msg) > > -> > > user space application > > Command timeout - ncsi_request_timeout() -> ncsi_send_netlink_timeout () > > > > -> Netlink interface (msg with zero data length) > > > > -> user space application > > Error: > > Error detected -> ncsi_send_netlink_err () -> Netlink interface (err msg) > > > > -> user space application > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Justin Lee <justin.l...@dell.com> > > Hi Justin, > > This is looking pretty good, combined with Vijay's base patch the two > approaches should fit together nicely ( > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/976510/). > > A good merge order would probably be the above patch first, then this > patch and Vijay's further OEM patches based on top of that to reduce > conflicts. > > Cheers, > Sam
