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Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2015 11:12:25 +1100 From: Gavin Shan <gwshan@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> To: Gavin Shan <gwshan@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, benh@...nel.crashing.org, davem@...emloft.net Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v1 0/7] NCSI Support On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 02:09:42PM +1100, Gavin Shan wrote: Please ignore this series. A new RFC patchset is going to be sent with more improved as I was suggested: * Explaning what's NCSI and how the code is designed. * Dropped netlink interface so that we can focus on NCSI stack at current stage Thanks, Gavin >This patchset is prototype requesting for comments. > >This series of patches intends to support NCSI stack, which is specified by >DSP0222. One NCSI enabled interface potentially connects to multiple packages >and channels, but there is one active channel at once when hardware arbitration >is disabled. No hardware arbitration isn't supported by this patchset: > > * NIC driver registers NCSI device when the network device is registered. The > NCSI device should be started when bringing up the interface so that the > active channel can be choosed from the available channels and starts to provide > service. > * When NCSI AEN packet is received from currently active channel for sake of > failure, another active channel is tried to choosed to accomplish the failover. > * Reserved netlink interface for NCSI is supported so that userland can retrieve > NCSI information or configure from/to NCSI channels. > * The first user of NCSI stack is faraday driver (ftgmac100.c). > >Gavin Shan (7): > net/ncsi: Resource management > net/ncsi: Packet handler > net/ncsi: Manage NCSI device > net/ncsi: Netlink support > net/faraday: Replace use_nc_si with use_ncsi > net/faraday: Enable NCSI interface > net/faraday: Enable offload checksum according to device-tree > > drivers/net/ethernet/faraday/ftgmac100.c | 109 ++- > include/net/ncsi.h | 59 ++ > include/uapi/linux/if_ether.h | 1 + > include/uapi/linux/ncsi.h | 200 +++++ > include/uapi/linux/netlink.h | 1 + > net/Kconfig | 1 + > net/Makefile | 1 + > net/ncsi/Kconfig | 10 + > net/ncsi/Makefile | 5 + > net/ncsi/internal.h | 165 +++++ > net/ncsi/ncsi-aen.c | 197 +++++ > net/ncsi/ncsi-cmd.c | 380 ++++++++++ > net/ncsi/ncsi-manage.c | 914 +++++++++++++++++++++++ > net/ncsi/ncsi-netlink.c | 1042 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > net/ncsi/ncsi-pkt.h | 391 ++++++++++ > net/ncsi/ncsi-rsp.c | 1167 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > net/ncsi/ncsi.c | 49 ++ > 17 files changed, 4661 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-) > create mode 100644 include/net/ncsi.h > create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/ncsi.h > create mode 100644 net/ncsi/Kconfig > create mode 100644 net/ncsi/Makefile > create mode 100644 net/ncsi/internal.h > create mode 100644 net/ncsi/ncsi-aen.c > create mode 100644 net/ncsi/ncsi-cmd.c > create mode 100644 net/ncsi/ncsi-manage.c > create mode 100644 net/ncsi/ncsi-netlink.c > create mode 100644 net/ncsi/ncsi-pkt.h > create mode 100644 net/ncsi/ncsi-rsp.c > create mode 100644 net/ncsi/ncsi.c > >-- >2.1.0 > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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