netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH v2 1/2] dcbnl: Aggregated CEE GET operation

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Message-Id: <20110705.234324.1045556069748009747.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 05 Jul 2011 23:43:24 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	shmulikr@...adcom.com
Cc:	john.r.fastabend@...el.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH v2 1/2] dcbnl: Aggregated CEE GET operation

From: "Shmulik Ravid" <shmulikr@...adcom.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 19:16:22 +0300

> The following couple of patches add dcbnl an unsolicited notification of
> the the DCB configuration for the CEE flavor of the DCBX protocol. This
> is useful when the user-mode DCB client is not responsible for
> conducting and resolving the DCBX negotiation (either because the DCBX
> stack is embedded in the HW or the negotiation is handled by another
> agent in he host), but still needs to get the negotiated parameters.
> This functionality already exists for the IEEE flavor of the DCBX
> protocol and these patches add it to the older CEE flavor.
> 
> The first patch extends the CEE attribute GET operation to include not
> only the peer information, but also all the pertinent local
> configuration (negotiated parameters). The second patch adds and export
> a CEE specific notification routine.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shmulik Ravid <shmulikr@...adcom.com>

Applied.
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