netdev - Re: [PATCH 00/11] Add support to FCoE offload through net

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Message-Id: <20090303.235725.140764281.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:57:25 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	yi.zou@...el.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/11] Add support to FCoE offload through net_device
 (v2)

From: Yi Zou <yi.zou@...el.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:06:32 -0800

> This is set of revised patches for adding offload support of
> Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) offload support through net_device
> for the Open-FCoE project maintained at http://www.open-fcoe.org.
> 
> The original submission can be found at:
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=123507707821705&w=2
> 
> The included patches would add FCoE offload support through the net_device
> struct as shown in the series of patches followed here. This is achieved
> by adding nedev feature flags for FCoE FC CRC offload and large send offload
> through gso. The large receive offload by direct data placement (ddp) is
> achieved by the two function pointers to net_device_ops, to setup and release
> ddp context, ndo_fcoe_ddp_setup and ndo_fcoe_ddp_done. One data member is
> added to net_device strut, namely fcoe_ddp_xid, which inidates the maximum
> exchange id allowed by LLD to perform ddp on the read I/O request.
> 
> As the following patches touch both netdev and libfc/fcoe, and they are
> applicable to the current tip at www.open-fcoe.org w/ patches available at:
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=123576089125544&w=2 If they look alright,
> I will rework them later to be directly applicable to net-next, where the
> aforementioned fcoe/libfc fix patches are expected to be in kernel already
> through scsi-fixes.

I am fine with these changes, they look good.

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