Re: [net-next PATCH v2 1/2] dcbnl: Aggregated CEE GET operation

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: "Shmulik Ravid" <shmulikr@broadcom.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 19:16:22 +0300

> The following couple of patches add dcbnl an unsolicited notification of
> the the DCB configuration for the CEE flavor of the DCBX protocol. This
> is useful when the user-mode DCB client is not responsible for
> conducting and resolving the DCBX negotiation (either because the DCBX
> stack is embedded in the HW or the negotiation is handled by another
> agent in he host), but still needs to get the negotiated parameters.
> This functionality already exists for the IEEE flavor of the DCBX
> protocol and these patches add it to the older CEE flavor.
> 
> The first patch extends the CEE attribute GET operation to include not
> only the peer information, but also all the pertinent local
> configuration (negotiated parameters). The second patch adds and export
> a CEE specific notification routine.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shmulik Ravid <shmulikr@broadcom.com>

Applied.