[ewg] [PATCH 0/5 VNIC] VNIC patch series for OFED-1.2 and OFED-1.2.c

[Ramachandra K]

Vlad,

Please apply this VNIC patch series to both the OFED-1.2 and OFED-1.2.c branches.

This series contains changes to the VNIC driver for supporting iPath and the new version of the
VEx hardware, the Ethernet Virtual I/O Controller (EVIC).

The first four patches are for the VNIC kernel driver. They have dependencies and need
to be applied in the following order:


	[PATCH 1/5 VNIC] DMA interface changes to support iPath

        [PATCH 2/5 VNIC] Changes to VNIC control state machine (Depends on Patch 1)

        [PATCH 3/5 VNIC ] Improvements for EVIC scalability (Depends on Patch 2)

        [PATCH 4/5 VNIC] Delay reconnects to prevent flooding of EVIC in failure cases (Depends on Patch 3)

The last patch is for the build environment, build_env.sh to enable VNIC installation on RHEL 5:

        [PATCH 5/5 build_env.sh] Enable building VNIC on RHEL 5

Regards,
Ram