From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] bnx2x: Add Nic partitioning mode (57712 devices) Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2010 12:40:07 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20101201.124007.116381672.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1290982177.6066.3.camel@lb-tlvb-dmitry> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, eilong@broadcom.com To: dmitry@broadcom.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:35151 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757000Ab0LAUjk (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Dec 2010 15:39:40 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1290982177.6066.3.camel@lb-tlvb-dmitry> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: "Dmitry Kravkov" Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 00:09:37 +0200 > NIC partitioning is another flavor of multi function - having few > PCI functions share the same physical port. Unlike the currently > supported mode of multi-function which depends on the switch > configuration and uses outer-VLAN, the NPAR mode is switch independent > and uses the MAC addresses to distribute incoming packets to the different > functions. This patch adds the specific HW setting of the NPAR mode > and some distinctions between switch dependent (SD) and > switch independent (SI) multi-function (MF) modes where the configuration > is not the same. > > Advance driver version to 1.60.00-6 > > Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kravkov > Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein Applied to net-next-2.6, but I expect you to keep discussing the naming and sysfs issues with Matt Domsch. :-)