From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755129AbcFQFhb (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jun 2016 01:37:31 -0400 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:46494 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754006AbcFQFh3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jun 2016 01:37:29 -0400 Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 22:37:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20160616.223727.1715535480635369736.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 From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <1466099519-39322-1-git-send-email-skhare@vmware.com> References: <1466099519-39322-1-git-send-email-skhare@vmware.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.7 on Emacs 24.5 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.12 (shards.monkeyblade.net [149.20.54.216]); Thu, 16 Jun 2016 22:37:29 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Shrikrishna Khare 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.