Re: [PATCH RFC v1 0/7] NCSI Support

[Gavin Shan <gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 02:09:42PM +1100, Gavin Shan wrote:

Please ignore this series. A new RFC patchset is going to be sent with more improved
as I was suggested:

  * Explaning what's NCSI and how the code is designed.
  * Dropped netlink interface so that we can focus on NCSI stack at current stage

Thanks,
Gavin

>This patchset is prototype requesting for comments.
>
>This series of patches intends to support NCSI stack, which is specified by
>DSP0222. One NCSI enabled interface potentially connects to multiple packages
>and channels, but there is one active channel at once when hardware arbitration
>is disabled. No hardware arbitration isn't supported by this patchset:
>
>   * NIC driver registers NCSI device when the network device is registered. The
>     NCSI device should be started when bringing up the interface so that the
>     active channel can be choosed from the available channels and starts to provide
>     service.
>   * When NCSI AEN packet is received from currently active channel for sake of
>     failure, another active channel is tried to choosed to accomplish the failover.
>   * Reserved netlink interface for NCSI is supported so that userland can retrieve
>     NCSI information or configure from/to NCSI channels.
>   * The first user of NCSI stack is faraday driver (ftgmac100.c).
>
>Gavin Shan (7):
>  net/ncsi: Resource management
>  net/ncsi: Packet handler
>  net/ncsi: Manage NCSI device
>  net/ncsi: Netlink support
>  net/faraday: Replace use_nc_si with use_ncsi
>  net/faraday: Enable NCSI interface
>  net/faraday: Enable offload checksum according to device-tree
>
> drivers/net/ethernet/faraday/ftgmac100.c |  109 ++-
> include/net/ncsi.h                       |   59 ++
> include/uapi/linux/if_ether.h            |    1 +
> include/uapi/linux/ncsi.h                |  200 +++++
> include/uapi/linux/netlink.h             |    1 +
> net/Kconfig                              |    1 +
> net/Makefile                             |    1 +
> net/ncsi/Kconfig                         |   10 +
> net/ncsi/Makefile                        |    5 +
> net/ncsi/internal.h                      |  165 +++++
> net/ncsi/ncsi-aen.c                      |  197 +++++
> net/ncsi/ncsi-cmd.c                      |  380 ++++++++++
> net/ncsi/ncsi-manage.c                   |  914 +++++++++++++++++++++++
> net/ncsi/ncsi-netlink.c                  | 1042 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> net/ncsi/ncsi-pkt.h                      |  391 ++++++++++
> net/ncsi/ncsi-rsp.c                      | 1167 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> net/ncsi/ncsi.c                          |   49 ++
> 17 files changed, 4661 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 include/net/ncsi.h
> create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/ncsi.h
> create mode 100644 net/ncsi/Kconfig
> create mode 100644 net/ncsi/Makefile
> create mode 100644 net/ncsi/internal.h
> create mode 100644 net/ncsi/ncsi-aen.c
> create mode 100644 net/ncsi/ncsi-cmd.c
> create mode 100644 net/ncsi/ncsi-manage.c
> create mode 100644 net/ncsi/ncsi-netlink.c
> create mode 100644 net/ncsi/ncsi-pkt.h
> create mode 100644 net/ncsi/ncsi-rsp.c
> create mode 100644 net/ncsi/ncsi.c
>
>-- 
>2.1.0
>