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
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