netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] cxgb4: Allow for backward compatibility with new VPD scheme.

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Date:	Mon, 11 Mar 2013 02:30:09 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	vipul@...lsio.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, divy@...lsio.com, dm@...lsio.com,
	abhishek@...lsio.com, santosh@...lsio.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] cxgb4: Allow for backward compatibility with
 new VPD scheme.

From: Vipul Pandya <vipul@...lsio.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 11:21:51 +0530

> 
> 
> On 08-03-2013 23:14, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Vipul Pandya <vipul@...lsio.com>
>> Date: Fri,  8 Mar 2013 19:05:29 +0530
>> 
>>> From: Santosh Rastapur <santosh@...lsio.com>
>>>
>>> New scheme calls for 3rd party VPD at offset 0x0 and Chelsio VPD at offset
>>> 0x400 of the function.  If no 3rd party VPD is present, then a copy of
>>> Chelsio's VPD will be at offset 0x0 to keep in line with PCI spec which
>>> requires the VPD to be present at offset 0x0.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Santosh Rastapur <santosh@...lsio.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Vipul Pandya <vipul@...lsio.com>
>> 
>> Isn't this a fix which is better targetted at 'net' than 'net-next'?
>> 
> 
> We have very soon new patch series coming up for net-next. This patch
> requires for that patch series to work correctly. So, we would like to
> get this merge in net-next tree.

But you can achieve that by asking me to apply this to 'net' and then
when the patch series that depends upon it is posted, you tell me about
this dependency.
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