netdev - RE: [PATCHv4 NEXT 1/1] net: ethtool support to configure number of channels

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Date:	Wed, 13 Apr 2011 04:45:11 -0500
From:	Amit Salecha <amit.salecha@...gic.com>
To:	"davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ameen Rahman <ameen.rahman@...gic.com>,
	Sucheta Chakraborty <sucheta.chakraborty@...gic.com>,
	Anirban Chakraborty <anirban.chakraborty@...gic.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCHv4 NEXT 1/1] net: ethtool support to configure number of
 channels

> Ethtool support to configure RX, TX and other channels. combined field
> in struct ethtool_channels to reflect set of channel (RX, TX or other).
> Other channel can be link interrupts, SR-IOV coordination etc.
>
> ETHTOOL_GCHANNELS will report max and current number of RX channels,
> max and current number of TX channels, max and current number of other
> channel
> or max and current number of combined channel.
>
> Number of channel can be modify upto max number of channel through
> ETHTOOL_SCHANNELS command.
>
> Ben Hutchings:
> o define 'combined' and 'other' types.  Most multiqueue drivers pair up
> RX and TX
>   queues so that most channels combine RX and TX work.
> o Please could you use a kernel-doc comment to describe the structure.
>
> Signed-off-by: Amit Kumar Salecha <amit.salecha@...gic.com>

Neither I see this patch in http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/netdev/list/ nor any comment.
Just curious, is this patch discarded along with my other garbage patches ?

-Amit


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