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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: examples of setting ip address/netmask/etc.. on a device
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:08:46 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <adahcw0u5qp.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A02AEA26-70F9-4B55-A88A-235B3FF4C9F9@kernel.crashing.org> (Kumar Gala's message of "Tue, 12 Dec 2006 15:01:53 -0600")

 > I was wondering if there were any examples of net devices that expect
 > to be told the ip information for their connection (things doing
 > forms of offload).  If so can someone point me at a driver that does
 > this.

I don't know much about the HW details but drivers/infiniband/hw/amso1100
does something like that.  drivers/infiniband is somewhat misnamed
these days but amso1100 is a driver for RDMA over ethernet hardware.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-12 22:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-12 21:01 examples of setting ip address/netmask/etc.. on a device Kumar Gala
2006-12-12 22:08 ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2006-12-13  4:48 ` Herbert Xu

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