From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH v2 1/2] dcbnl: Aggregated CEE GET operation Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 23:43:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20110705.234324.1045556069748009747.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1309882582.22577.8.camel@lb-tlvb-shmulik.il.broadcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: john.r.fastabend@intel.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: shmulikr@broadcom.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([198.137.202.13]:36947 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751788Ab1GFGn3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jul 2011 02:43:29 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1309882582.22577.8.camel@lb-tlvb-shmulik.il.broadcom.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: "Shmulik Ravid" 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 Applied.