netdev - Re: [net-next v3 00/20][pull request] Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates 2019-12-09

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Message-ID: <324a6a4c7553cea5225b6f94ff224e155a252b36.camel@intel.com>
Date:   Tue, 10 Dec 2019 10:06:41 -0800
From:   Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
        nhorman@...hat.com, sassmann@...hat.com, parav@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [net-next v3 00/20][pull request] Intel Wired LAN Driver
 Updates 2019-12-09

On Tue, 2019-12-10 at 13:22 -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 09, 2019 at 02:49:15PM -0800, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
> > This series contains the initial implementation of the Virtual Bus,
> > virtbus_device, virtbus_driver, updates to 'ice' and 'i40e' to use the
> > new
> > Virtual Bus and the new RDMA driver 'irdma' for use with 'ice' and
> > 'i40e'.
> > 
> > The primary purpose of the Virtual bus is to provide a matching service
> > and to pass the data pointer contained in the virtbus_device to the
> > virtbus_driver during its probe call.  This will allow two separate
> > kernel objects to match up and start communication.
> > 
> > The last 16 patches of the series adds a unified Intel Ethernet
> > Protocol
> > driver for RDMA that supports a new network device E810 (iWARP and
> > RoCEv2 capable) and the existing X722 iWARP device.  The driver
> > architecture provides the extensibility for future generations of Intel
> > hardware supporting RDMA.
> > 
> > The 'irdma' driver replaces the legacy X722 driver i40iw and extends
> > the
> > ABI already defined for i40iw.  It is backward compatible with legacy
> > X722 rdma-core provider (libi40iw).
> 
> Please don't send new RDMA drivers in pull requests to net. This
> driver is completely unreviewed at this point.

This was done because you requested a for a single pull request in an
earlier submission 9 months ago.  I am fine with breaking up submission,
even though the RDMA driver would be dependent upon the virtual bus and LAN
driver changes.

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