From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Govindarajulu Varadarajan <_govind@gmx.com> Subject: [PATCH net-next v2 0/2] enic: add support to send port-profile's client name to firmware Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 04:11:21 +0530 Message-ID: <1412289683-8278-1-git-send-email-_govind@gmx.com> Cc: ssujith@cisco.com, benve@cisco.com, Govindarajulu Varadarajan <_govind@gmx.com> To: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mout.gmx.com ([74.208.4.201]:64340 "EHLO mout.gmx.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752090AbaJBWpZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Oct 2014 18:45:25 -0400 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Firmware has support for sending client name of the port profile to the switch it's connected to. This series adds client name to port profile which is sent to hardware while associating a port profile to VF. Since port profile are defined in switch, this patch makes it easier to check what VM is using a port profile. v2: Split single patch to multiple patches. First patch adds client name to netlink facility. Second patch adds driver support. Govindarajulu Varadarajan (2): if_link: add client name to port profile enic: add vmname port-profile handler drivers/net/ethernet/cisco/enic/enic.h | 2 ++ drivers/net/ethernet/cisco/enic/enic_main.c | 6 ++++++ drivers/net/ethernet/cisco/enic/enic_pp.c | 5 +++++ include/uapi/linux/if_link.h | 1 + net/core/rtnetlink.c | 2 ++ 5 files changed, 16 insertions(+) -- 2.1.0