From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] ixgbe: Add Data Center Bridging netlink listener for DCB runtime changes. Date: Fri, 02 May 2008 07:03:29 -0400 Message-ID: <481AF501.3030507@pobox.com> References: <20080502004254.14392.7599.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <20080502004300.14392.87943.stgit@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: PJ Waskiewicz Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:59405 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761715AbYEBLDd (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 May 2008 07:03:33 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080502004300.14392.87943.stgit@localhost.localdomain> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: PJ Waskiewicz wrote: > This patch introduces a new generic netlink subsystem for Data Center > Bridging, aka DCB. The interface will allow userspace applications to > configure the DCB parameters in the driver required to make the technology > work. > > Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr > Signed-off-by: Auke Kok > --- > > drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_dcb_nl.c | 1273 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 1 files changed, 1273 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) Seems to me we don't want each driver supporting this technology to create their own netlink interface... This seems more appropriate via ethtool, or ethtool-netlink (Thomas Graf posted an RFC) Jeff