netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH 1/2 v4] ibmvnic: map L2/L3/L4 header descriptors to firmware

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Date:	Tue, 05 Apr 2016 19:51:57 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	tlfalcon@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	jallen@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 1/2 v4] ibmvnic: map L2/L3/L4 header
 descriptors to firmware

From: Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Fri,  1 Apr 2016 17:20:34 -0500

> Allow the VNIC driver to provide descriptors containing
> L2/L3/L4 headers to firmware.  This feature is needed
> for greater hardware compatibility and enablement of checksum
> and TCP offloading features.
> 
> A new function is included for the hypervisor call,
> H_SEND_SUBCRQ_INDIRECT, allowing a DMA-mapped array of SCRQ
> descriptor elements to be sent to the VNIC server.
> 
> These additions will help fully enable checksum offloading as
> well as other features as they are included later.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

Applied.