netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] liquidio: synchronize VF representor names with NIC firmware

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Message-Id: <20171102.170420.1118413653679801073.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Thu, 02 Nov 2017 17:04:20 +0900 (KST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     felix.manlunas@...ium.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, raghu.vatsavayi@...ium.com,
        derek.chickles@...ium.com, satananda.burla@...ium.com,
        vijaya.guvva@...ium.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] liquidio: synchronize VF representor names
 with NIC firmware

From: Felix Manlunas <felix.manlunas@...ium.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 16:19:49 -0700

> From: Vijaya Mohan Guvva <vijaya.guvva@...ium.com>
> 
> LiquidIO firmware supports a vswitch that needs to know the names of the
> VF representors in the host to maintain compatibility for direct
> programming using external Openflow agents.  So, for each VF representor,
> send its name to the firmware when it gets registered and when its name
> changes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vijaya Mohan Guvva <vijaya.guvva@...ium.com>
> Signed-off-by: Raghu Vatsavayi <raghu.vatsavayi@...ium.com>
> Signed-off-by: Felix Manlunas <felix.manlunas@...ium.com>

Applied, thank you.