netdev - Re: igbvf: add new driver to support 82576 virtual functions

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Date:	Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:47:42 +0800
From:	Yu Zhao <yu.zhao@...el.com>
To:	"Kirsher, Jeffrey T" <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@...ux.intel.com>,
	"Duyck, Alexander H" <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: igbvf: add new driver to support 82576 virtual functions

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 05:03:29PM +0800, Kirsher, Jeffrey T wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 1:45 AM, Jeff Kirsher
> <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:38 PM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> This breaks the build:
> >>
> >> drivers/net/igbvf/ethtool.c: In function 'igbvf_set_ringparam':
> >> drivers/net/igbvf/ethtool.c:299: error: implicit declaration of function 'vmalloc'
> >> drivers/net/igbvf/ethtool.c:299: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
> >> drivers/net/igbvf/ethtool.c:346: error: implicit declaration of function 'vfree'
> >> --
> >
> > Sorry Dave, I thought this was called out earlier, but I see it was
> > not.  The igbvf driver requires the following patches applied to your
> > tree to have them compile.  Last I heard, these SR-IOV patches were
> > accepted for 2.6.30, in the PCI tree.
> >
> > Yu, can you confirm that these patches have been accepted for 2.6.30?
> >
> > Summary:
> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123751955907397&w=2
> > Patches:
> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123751956107417&w=2
> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123751956207423&w=2
> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123751981407629&w=2
> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123751981507632&w=2
> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123751981707644&w=2
> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123751981607635&w=2
> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123751981607638&w=2
> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123751981707641&w=2
> 
> I confirmed that Jesse Barnes has these SR-IOV patches queued up for 2.6.30.
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123757169806111&w=2

Yes, it's in Jesse's linux-next branch:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6.git;a=shortlog;h=linux-next

Thanks,
Yu
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