[ewg] [PATCH 0/10 VNIC] VNIC patch series for OFED-1.3

Hal Rosenstock hal.rosenstock at gmail.com
Thu Aug 23 06:44:22 PDT 2007


On 8/21/07, Ramachandra K <ramachandra.kuchimanchi at qlogic.com> wrote:
>
> Vlad,
>
> This VNIC patch series is for OFED-1.3.
>
> This series contains changes to the VNIC driver for supporting iPath,
> the Ethernet Virtual I/O Controller (EVIC) and some bug fixes.
>
> There are 9 patches for the VNIC kernel driver. They have dependencies and need
> to be applied in the following order:
>
> [PATCH 1/10 VNIC] DMA interface changes to support iPath
> [PATCH 2/10 VNIC] Changes to VNIC control state machine
> [PATCH 3/10 VNIC] Improvements for EVIC scalability
> [PATCH 4/10 VNIC] Delay reconnects to prevent flooding of EVIC
> [PATCH 5/10 VNIC] Fix the ib_create_cq() call
> [PATCH 6/10 VNIC] Increase the watchdog timeout value
> [PATCH 7/10 VNIC] Retry sending CM requests on failure
> [PATCH 8/10 VNIC] Check for hearbeat value of 0
> [PATCH 9/10 VNIC] Bump up the VNIC version number
>
> The last patch is for the build environment, build_env.sh to enable VNIC installation on RHEL 5:
>
> [PATCH 10/10 VNIC] Enable building VNIC on RHEL 5

Shouldn't a more flexible naming scheme like ulp/qlogic or ql_vnic be
used for these ? VNIC is too generic a name.

-- Hal

>
> Regards,
> Ram
>
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