netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 00/10] Mellanox 100G mlx5 DCBX and ethtool updates

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Date:   Sun, 27 Nov 2016 15:18:05 +0200
From:   Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@....mellanox.co.il>
To:     Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 00/10] Mellanox 100G mlx5 DCBX and ethtool updates

On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 4:18 PM, Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com> wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> This series provides the following mlx5 updates:
>
> From Huy:
> DCBX CEE API and DCBX firmware/host modes support.
>     - 1st patch ensures the dcbnl_rtnl_ops is published only when the qos
>       capability bits is on.
>     - 2nd patch adds the support for CEE interfaces into mlx5 dcbnl_rtnl_ops
>     - 3rd patch refactors ETS query to read ETS configuration directly from
>       firmware rather than having a software shadow to it. The existing IEEE
>       interfaces stays the same.
>     - 4th patch adds the support for MLX5_REG_DCBX_PARAM and MLX5_REG_DCBX_APP
>       firmware commands to manipulate mlx5 DCBX mode.
>     - 5th patch adds the driver support for the new DCBX firmware.  This ensures
>       the backward compatibility versus the old and new firmware. With the new DCBX
>       firmware, qos settings can be controlled by either firmware or software
>       depending on the DCBX mode.
>
> From Kamal and Saeed:
>     - mlx5 self-test support.
>
> From Shaker:
>     - Private flag to give the user the ability to enable/disable mlx5 CQE
>       compression.
>

Hi Dave,

Please hold on with this series, we need a respin to fix some static
checkers warnings.

Thanks
Saeed.