From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: Yi Zou <yi.zou@intel.com>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] net: add FCoE offload support through net_device
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:24:20 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090219132420.4b0dfc09@extreme> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090219194949.22270.40834.stgit.yi.zou@intel.com>
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:49:49 -0700
Yi Zou <yi.zou@intel.com> wrote:
> This adds a "struct net_fcoe_ops *fcoe_ops" to net_device struct so any
> network adapter driver can provide Fiber Channle over Ethernet (FCoE) offload
> support through net_device. The fcoe_ops is only available when FCoE is
> enabled in kernel as built-in or module driver.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yi Zou <yi.zou@intel.com>
Rather than adding another _ops structure please add to existing
netdevice_ops. You don't need the flags that way. If netdevice_ops
has fcoe_setup, then device can do it...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-19 21:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20090219194734.22270.8445.stgit@zychengdu.jf.intel.com>
2009-02-19 19:49 ` [PATCH 1/7] net: add ETH_P_FCOE for Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) Yi Zou
2009-02-19 19:49 ` [PATCH 2/7] net: add FCoE offload support through net_device Yi Zou
2009-02-19 21:24 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2009-02-19 21:32 ` Zou, Yi
2009-02-20 23:21 ` Zou, Yi
2009-02-20 23:27 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-02-19 19:49 ` [PATCH 3/7] fcoe: check offload features from LLD through netdev Yi Zou
2009-02-19 19:50 ` [PATCH 4/7] libfc: add support of large receive offload by ddp in fc_fcp Yi Zou
2009-02-19 19:50 ` [PATCH 5/7] fcoe: add support to net_fcoe_ops in fcoe_sw Yi Zou
2009-02-19 19:50 ` [PATCH 6/7] fcoe: remove ETH_P_FCOE from fc_fcoe.h Yi Zou
2009-02-19 21:25 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-02-19 21:49 ` Zou, Yi
2009-02-19 19:50 ` [PATCH 7/7] fcoe: fcoe fc crc offload indication by skb->ip_summed Yi Zou
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20090219132420.4b0dfc09@extreme \
--to=shemminger@vyatta.com \
--cc=linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=netdev@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=yi.zou@intel.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.