From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: PJ Waskiewicz <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] ixgbe: Add Data Center Bridging netlink listener for DCB runtime changes.
Date: Fri, 02 May 2008 07:03:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <481AF501.3030507@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080502004300.14392.87943.stgit@localhost.localdomain>
PJ Waskiewicz wrote:
> This patch introduces a new generic netlink subsystem for Data Center
> Bridging, aka DCB. The interface will allow userspace applications to
> configure the DCB parameters in the driver required to make the technology
> work.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
> ---
>
> drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_dcb_nl.c | 1273 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 files changed, 1273 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
Seems to me we don't want each driver supporting this technology to
create their own netlink interface...
This seems more appropriate via ethtool, or ethtool-netlink (Thomas Graf
posted an RFC)
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-02 11:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-02 0:42 [ANNOUNCE] ixgbe: Data Center Bridging (DCB) support for ixgbe PJ Waskiewicz
2008-05-02 0:43 ` [PATCH 1/3] ixgbe: Add Data Center Bridging netlink listener for DCB runtime changes PJ Waskiewicz
2008-05-02 11:03 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2008-05-02 20:08 ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2008-05-07 20:53 ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2008-05-07 21:13 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-05-16 22:45 ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2008-05-16 23:20 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-05-17 9:14 ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2008-05-02 0:43 ` [PATCH 2/3] ixgbe: Add DCB hardware initialization routines PJ Waskiewicz
2008-05-02 0:43 ` [PATCH 3/3] ixgbe: Enable Data Center Bridging (DCB) support PJ Waskiewicz
2008-05-02 11:19 ` [ANNOUNCE] ixgbe: Data Center Bridging (DCB) support for ixgbe Andi Kleen
2008-05-02 20:18 ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
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