From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: skhare@vmware.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
pv-drivers@vmware.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v5 0/7] vmxnet3: upgrade to version 3
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 22:37:27 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160616.223727.1715535480635369736.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1466099519-39322-1-git-send-email-skhare@vmware.com>
From: Shrikrishna Khare <skhare@vmware.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 10:51:52 -0700
> vmxnet3 emulation has recently added several new features which includes
> support for new commands the driver can issue to emulation, change in
> descriptor fields etc. This patch series extends the vmxnet3 driver to
> leverage these new features.
>
> Compatibility is maintained using existing vmxnet3 versioning mechanism as
> follows:
> - new features added to vmxnet3 emulation are associated with new vmxnet3
> version viz. vmxnet3 version 3.
> - emulation advertises all the versions it supports to the driver.
> - during initialization, vmxnet3 driver picks the highest version number
> supported by both the emulation and the driver and configures emulation
> to run at that version.
>
> In particular, following changes are introduced:
...
Series applied, thanks.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-17 5:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-16 17:51 [PATCH net-next v5 0/7] vmxnet3: upgrade to version 3 Shrikrishna Khare
2016-06-16 17:51 ` [PATCH net-next v5 1/7] vmxnet3: prepare for version 3 changes Shrikrishna Khare
2016-06-16 17:51 ` [PATCH net-next v5 2/7] vmxnet3: introduce generalized command interface to configure the device Shrikrishna Khare
2016-06-16 17:51 ` [PATCH net-next v5 3/7] vmxnet3: allow variable length transmit data ring buffer Shrikrishna Khare
2016-06-16 17:51 ` [PATCH net-next v5 4/7] vmxnet3: add receive data ring support Shrikrishna Khare
2016-06-16 17:51 ` [PATCH net-next v5 5/7] vmxnet3: add support for get_coalesce, set_coalesce ethtool operations Shrikrishna Khare
2016-06-16 17:51 ` [PATCH net-next v5 6/7] vmxnet3: introduce command to register memory region Shrikrishna Khare
2016-06-16 17:51 ` [PATCH net-next v5 7/7] vmxnet3: update to version 3 Shrikrishna Khare
2016-06-17 5:37 ` David Miller [this message]
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