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Message-Id: <20160616.223727.1715535480635369736.davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 22:37:27 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To: skhare@...are.com
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
pv-drivers@...are.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v5 0/7] vmxnet3: upgrade to version 3
From: Shrikrishna Khare <skhare@...are.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 10:51:52 -0700
> vmxnet3 emulation has recently added several new features which includes
> support for new commands the driver can issue to emulation, change in
> descriptor fields etc. This patch series extends the vmxnet3 driver to
> leverage these new features.
>
> Compatibility is maintained using existing vmxnet3 versioning mechanism as
> follows:
> - new features added to vmxnet3 emulation are associated with new vmxnet3
> version viz. vmxnet3 version 3.
> - emulation advertises all the versions it supports to the driver.
> - during initialization, vmxnet3 driver picks the highest version number
> supported by both the emulation and the driver and configures emulation
> to run at that version.
>
> In particular, following changes are introduced:
...
Series applied, thanks.
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