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> On Jul 24, 2015, at 08:14, Scott Feldman <sfel...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 8:43 AM, Jiri Pirko <j...@resnulli.us> wrote: >> From: Ido Schimmel <ido...@mellanox.com> >> >> Add the ability to construct mailbox-style register access messages >> called EMADs with provisions to construct and parse the registers payload. >> Implement EMAD transaction layer which is responsible for the reliable >> transmission of EMADs. >> Also, add an infrastructure used by the switch driver to register for >> particular events generated by the device. > > What is this EMADs used for? Is this for intra-switch or inter-switch > communications? Ethernet management datagram. It's command encoding wrap as a packet. It used for host interface communication as well as multi-silicon support.-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
