Re: Getting a handle on all these new NIC features

2017-01-20 Thread Tom Herbert
On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 8:36 AM, Martin Habets wrote: > Hi Tom, > > On 17/01/17 22:05, Tom Herbert wrote: >> There was some discussion about the problems of dealing with the >> explosion of NIC features in the mlx directory restructuring proposal, >> but I think the is a deeper issue here that sho

Re: Getting a handle on all these new NIC features

2017-01-20 Thread Martin Habets
Hi Tom, On 17/01/17 22:05, Tom Herbert wrote: > There was some discussion about the problems of dealing with the > explosion of NIC features in the mlx directory restructuring proposal, > but I think the is a deeper issue here that should be discussed. > > It's hard not to notice that there has b

Re: Getting a handle on all these new NIC features

2017-01-17 Thread Florian Fainelli
On 01/17/2017 02:05 PM, Tom Herbert wrote: > I realize that backports of a driver is not a specific concern of the > Linux kernel, but nevertheless this is a real problem and a fact of > life for many users. Rebasing the full kernel is still a major effort > and it seems the best we could ever do i

Re: Getting a handle on all these new NIC features

2017-01-17 Thread Saeed Mahameed
On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 12:05 AM, Tom Herbert wrote: > There was some discussion about the problems of dealing with the > explosion of NIC features in the mlx directory restructuring proposal, > but I think the is a deeper issue here that should be discussed. > > It's hard not to notice that there

Getting a handle on all these new NIC features

2017-01-17 Thread Tom Herbert
There was some discussion about the problems of dealing with the explosion of NIC features in the mlx directory restructuring proposal, but I think the is a deeper issue here that should be discussed. It's hard not to notice that there has been quite a proliferation of NIC features in several driv