netdev - Re: [net-next 0/8][pull request] Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates

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Date:	Thu, 05 Sep 2013 22:58:38 -0700
From:	Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
To:	davem@...emloft.net
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, gospo@...hat.com, sassmann@...hat.com,
	jesse.brandeburg@...el.com, shannon.nelson@...el.com,
	peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com, e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [net-next  0/8][pull request] Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates

On Thu, 2013-09-05 at 22:43 -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
> This series implements the new i40e driver for Intel's upcoming
> Intel(R) Ethernet Controller XL710 Family of devices.
> 
> V1: initial send
> V2: each patch has individual comments, in general, feedback from the
>     list was applied and addressed. Many changes due to internal
> review
>     and coding as well.
> V3: many more individual comments addressed, thanks reviewers!  Many
>     other changes due to internal review and development.
> V4: addresses remaining community comments, mostly trivial edits.
>     major sparse based cleanup of possible endian issues
>     removal of most of __func__ references
>     sizeof(*var) instead of sizeof(struct ...)
>     change 'NULL ==' tests to !NULL
>     implement xps
>     use kernel bitshift macros (upper_32_bits, etc)
> V5: remove sysfs support from this set, will rearchitect
>     changes from community comments
> 
> Let me start by saying thanks and we appreciate any time spent by
> those of you who review and comment on this new driver, and we will
> attempt to address and respond to all issues brought to our attention.
> 
> Jesse tried to break the patches up to ease review, but the series
> should
> apply and still be bisectable, as the last patch adds the driver to
> the kernel compile with CONFIG_I40E.
> 
> This driver is for a brand new bit of silicon that has a different
> design than other Intel Ethernet silicon, and therefore needed a new
> driver.
> 
> The hardware has quite a bit of capability and this driver is only
> meant to provide basic functionality at first.  Future patches will
> continue to add functionality and bug fixes.
> 
> This initial release is very early in the product cycle with the
> intent
> of getting initial support into the kernel before users have the
> hardware available to purchase.  A software development manual is not
> ready yet but will be available when the hardware ships.
> 
> To be clear, the driver development model and interaction with
> community submitted patches *will not be any different* than what
> we are currently doing today.
> 
> This driver *does* use some code (as our previous drivers do) that is
> meant to be shared to different OS drivers.  One of the following
> patches has the majority of this code in it, and is clearly called out
> in the commit message.
> 
> An associated i40evf driver has been posted for review.
> 
> List of tools we ran in preparation:
> way more sparse clean
> make W=1, W=2 clean
> checkpatch (almost) clean
>         total: 1 errors, 4 warnings, 30595 lines checked
>         NOTE: Ignored message types: LONG_LINE
>         - issues have been addressed and the remainders
>           are noise.
> codespell clean
> smatch (almost) clean with a couple minor warnings
> coccicheck clean
> namespacecheck clean
> allmodconfig clean
> ppc64 build clean (unable to test yet)
> 
> This driver is a team effort, thank you to Joseph Gasparakis,
> Shannon Nelson, Anjali Singhai-Jain, Mitch Williams, Neerav
> Parikh, Vasu Dev, Kavindya Deegala, Yi Zou, and PJ Waskiewicz.
> 
> TODO (known issues)
> BQL implementation
> finish rtnl_stat64 locking (we have a patch but debugging it)
> 
> The following are changes since commit
> 2e032852245b3dcfe5461d7353e34eb6da095ccf:
>   Merge branch 'for-linus' of
> git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm
> and are available in the git repository at:
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jkirsher/net-next
> master
> 
> Jesse Brandeburg (8):
>   i40e: main driver core
>   i40e: transmit, receive, and NAPI
>   i40e: driver ethtool core
>   i40e: driver core headers
>   i40e: implement virtual device interface
>   i40e: init code and hardware support
>   i40e: debugfs interface
>   i40e: include i40e in kernel proper

Grrr... I sent v5 out and forgot to note it in the title.  Sorry for the
spam, I will resend with the proper titles. :-(

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