netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] qed: RocE & iSCSI infrastructure

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Date:	Fri, 03 Jun 2016 20:09:28 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	Yuval.Mintz@...gic.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Rajesh.Borundia@...gic.com,
	shyam.sundar@...gic.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] qed: RocE & iSCSI infrastructure

From: Yuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@...gic.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2016 14:35:31 +0300

> We plan on sending 2 new protocol drivers in the imminent future -
> both our RoCE [qedr] and iSCSI [qedi] drivers. As both submissions
> would be rather massive and in order to avoid collisions between them,
> the common infrastructure on the qed side was prepared as an independent
> patch-series to be sent ahead of those 2 submissions.
> 
> This patch series introduces in QED 2 new 'ids' - one for iscsi and
> one for roce. It then goes and adds logic required for configuring
> said protocols in HW. Notice it *doesn't* actually add any client using
> said ids, but rather only the infrastructure to allow their later usage.
> 
> What this patch doesn't contain is the slowpath protocol-configuration
> toward the firmware. I.e., it contains register-setting logic, memory
> allocations, etc., but not actual flow-related configuration specific
> to the protocl. Those would be sent as part of the protocol driver
> submissions.

Series applied to net-next, thanks.