[PATCH 0/7] Series short description

[PATCH 0/7] Series short description

[John Fastabend]

The following series implements...

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John Fastabend (7):
      dcb: Add missing error check in dcb_ieee_set()
      dcb: fix return type on dcb_setapp()
      dcb: Add dcb_ieee_getapp_mask() for drivers to query APP settings
      dcb: Add ieee_dcb_delapp() and dcb op to delete app entry
      dcbnl: Add ieee_dcb_setapp() to be used for IEEE 802.1Qaz APP data
      net: dcbnl, add multicast group for DCB
      Add DCBX capabilities bitmask to the get_ieee response.


 include/linux/dcbnl.h     |    2 
 include/linux/rtnetlink.h |    2 
 include/net/dcbnl.h       |    6 +
 net/dcb/dcbnl.c           |  414 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 4 files changed, 334 insertions(+), 90 deletions(-)

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[PATCH 0/7] Series short description

[John Fastabend]

The following series implements improvements to the DCB netlink
interface. This work was done to improve Application handling
and support firmware based LLDP agents.

This adds a multicast group for DCB currently user space has
trouble keeping in sync across multiple applications and with
firmware agents making DCB attribute changes in the driver.

To help support the recently ratified IEEE802.1Qaz extension
which supports multiple APP data entries for the same
selector and protocol fields a series of ieee set and delete
routines were improved and in the delete case added.

Finally the patches 5 and 6 are fixes to currently existing
code.

Please consider for net-next-2.6 inclusion.

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John Fastabend (7):
      dcb: Add missing error check in dcb_ieee_set()
      dcb: fix return type on dcb_setapp()
      dcb: Add dcb_ieee_getapp_mask() for drivers to query APP settings
      dcb: Add ieee_dcb_delapp() and dcb op to delete app entry
      dcb: Add ieee_dcb_setapp() to be used for IEEE 802.1Qaz APP data
      net: dcbnl, add multicast group for DCB
      dcb: Add DCBX capabilities bitmask to the get_ieee response


 include/linux/dcbnl.h     |    2 
 include/linux/rtnetlink.h |    2 
 include/net/dcbnl.h       |    6 +
 net/dcb/dcbnl.c           |  414 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 4 files changed, 334 insertions(+), 90 deletions(-)

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Re: [PATCH 0/7] Series short description

[Shmulik Ravid]

On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 14:16 -0700, John Fastabend wrote:
> The following series implements improvements to the DCB netlink
> interface. This work was done to improve Application handling
> and support firmware based LLDP agents.
> 
> This adds a multicast group for DCB currently user space has
> trouble keeping in sync across multiple applications and with
> firmware agents making DCB attribute changes in the driver.
> 

I was working on something along the same lines and would like to add on
top of these changes a notification for the CEE flavor.
 

Re: [PATCH 0/7] Series short description

[John Fastabend]

On 6/19/2011 10:58 AM, Shmulik Ravid wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 14:16 -0700, John Fastabend wrote:
>> The following series implements improvements to the DCB netlink
>> interface. This work was done to improve Application handling
>> and support firmware based LLDP agents.
>>
>> This adds a multicast group for DCB currently user space has
>> trouble keeping in sync across multiple applications and with
>> firmware agents making DCB attribute changes in the driver.
>>
> 
> I was working on something along the same lines and would like to add on
> top of these changes a notification for the CEE flavor.
>  

Yes please do. This would be helpful I just haven't got to it
yet. Anyways we will need something like this to support CEE
based firmware implementations.

Thanks,
John