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

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Message-ID: <513D70F7.4090708@chelsio.com>
Date:	Mon, 11 Mar 2013 11:21:51 +0530
From:	Vipul Pandya <vipul@...lsio.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Divy Le Ray <divy@...lsio.com>,
	Dimitrios Michailidis <dm@...lsio.com>,
	Abhishek Agrawal <abhishek@...lsio.com>,
	Santosh Rastapur <santosh@...lsio.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] cxgb4: Allow for backward compatibility with
 new VPD scheme.



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.

Thanks,
Vipul

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