Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6 1/2] qlcnic: NIC Partitioning - Add basic infrastructure support

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Anirban Chakraborty <anirban.chakraborty@qlogic.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 14:28:51 -0700

> Following changes have been added to enable the adapter to work in
> NIC partitioning mode where multiple PCI functions of an adapter port can
> be configured to work as NIC functions. The first function that is enumerated on
> the PCI bus assumes the role of management function which, besides being able
> to do all the NIC functionality, can configure other NIC partitions. Other NIC
> functions can be configured as privileged or non privileged functions.
> Privileged function can not configure other NIC functions but can do all the
> NIC functionality including any firmware initialization, chip reset etc. Non
> privileged functions can do only basic IO. For chip reset etc, it depends on the
> privilege or management function.
> 
> 1. Added code to determine PCI function number independent of kernel API.
> 2. Added Driver - FW version 2.0 support.
> 3. Changed producer and consumer register offset calculation.
> 4. Added management and privileged operation modes for npar functions. A module
>  parameter has been added to control it.
> 5. Added support for configuring the eswitch in the adapter.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anirban Chakraborty <anirban.chakraborty@qlogic.com>

Applied.