From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 0/5] qlcnic: Mailbox refactoring Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 23:04:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20130801.230456.1812905714664888247.davem@davemloft.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Dept_NX_Linux_NIC_Driver@qlogic.com To: himanshu.madhani@qlogic.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:59029 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753082Ab3HBGE5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Aug 2013 02:04:57 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Himanshu Madhani Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 00:57:38 -0400 > From: Himanshu Madhani > > This series contains following patches > > o in v2 series, we received feedback on return codes to use standard error > codes instead of mixing custom error codes. We have modified patch for > loopback diagnostic test to return standard error codes. > > o rest of the 3 patches in the series are for mailbox refactoring > > Current driver-firmware mailbox interface was operating in polling mode > because of some limitations with the earlier versions of 83xx adapter > firmware. These issues are resolved now and we are implementing the > mailbox interface in interrupt mode. > > There are three patches which refactors mailbox handling: > * Interrupt mode mailbox implantation. > * Replace poll mode mailbox interfaces with interrupt mode interfaces. > * Operate mailbox in poll mode when interrupts are not available. > > changes from v2 -> v3 > * Addressed review feedback to use standard return codes for loopback > diagnostic test. > > Please consider applying these patches to net-next. Series applied, thanks.