> -----Original Message----- > From: Yuval Mintz [mailto:yuval.mi...@qlogic.com] > Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2015 5:24 PM > To: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org> > Cc: Ariel Elior <ariel.el...@qlogic.com>; Yuval Mintz <yuval.mi...@qlogic.com> > Subject: [RFC v2 net-next 00/10] Add new drivers: qed & qede > > From: Ariel Elior <ariel.el...@qlogic.com> > > This series implements the driver set for Qlogic's new 579xx series. > These are 10/20/25/40/50/100 Gig capable converged nics, supporting > ethernet (obviously), iscsi, fcoe, roce and iwarp protocols. > > The overall driver design includes a common module ('qed') and protocol > specific dependent modules for ethernet ('qede'), fcoe ('qedf'), > iscsi ('qedi') and roce ('qedr'). > The common module contains all of the common logic, e.g. initialization, > cleanup, infrastructure for interrupt handling, link management, slowpath > etc. as well as protocol agnostic features, and supplying an abstraction > layer for other modules. > The protocol specific modules can be compiled and operated independently > of each other, with the exception of the rdma modules which are dependent > on the ethernet module, in accordance with the kernel rdma stack design. > > This series only adds the core and ethernet modules, with basic L2 > capabilities. Future series will add the rest of the modules and enhance > the L2 functionality. > > Ths patch series is constructed of the following patches: > qed: Add module with basic common support > qed: Add basic L2 interface > qede: Add basic Network driver > qed: Add slowpath L2 support > qede: Add basic network device support > qede: Add classification configuration > qed: Add link support > qede: Add support for link > qed: Add statistics support > qede: Add basic ethtool support > > We don't expect the series to be accepted as is. We are looking for > upstream community feedback and guidance. Although the series is quite > large, it is what we viewed as the minimal set of patches to constitute > a basic L2 driver. > > This project is a team effort, thanks go to Yuval Mintz, Dmitry Kravkov, > Michal Kalderon, Tomer Tayar, Manish Chopra, Sudarsana Kalluru, > Rajesh Borundia, Sony Chacko, Artum Zolotushko, Harish Patil, Rasesh Mody, > Sergey Ukhterov and Elad Manela, as well as former team members, > Eilon Greenstein and Shmulik Ravid. > > Changes from previos version: > ----------------------------- > > From Version 1: > - Removed private license file; Instead revised comments at source headers. > > Thanks, > Ariel Elior
Hi, Just a friendly reminder that this request for comment is still out there, and well, no comments have been forthcoming. Thanks, Ariel -- 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
